Banana Ball Is Coming to Myrtle Beach: Coconuts vs. Clowns at Pelicans Ballpark, March 19–20, 2027

The wildest show in baseball is bringing its World Tour to Pelicans Ballpark for the first time ever — here's who's actually playing, what in the world Banana Ball even is, and why your only shot at tickets closes on October 31.

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Baseball purists, brace yourselves. Everybody else, clear your calendar.

The Banana Ball World Tour is coming to Myrtle Beach. The tour rolls into Pelicans Ballpark March 18–20, 2027, with games on Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20 — the tour's first-ever stop at the Pelicans' home field.

If you've somehow missed the videos — the dancing umpires, the backflip catches, the batter sprinting to first on a walk — this is the traveling baseball circus that turned a rule-bending exhibition game into one of the hottest tickets in American sports. And it's setting up shop right here on 21st Avenue.

What in the world is Banana Ball?

Start with baseball. Then throw out everything slow about it.

Banana Ball is its own version of the game, built to move fast and keep the crowd on its feet. The rules, straight up:

• No bunting. Ever. Swing the bat.
• Two-hour time limit. The whole show runs on a clock — no four-hour marathons, no seventh-inning stretch that lasts till midnight.
• Fans can make an out. Catch a foul ball in the stands and the batter is out. Bring a glove. Seriously.
• Batters can steal first base. On a wild pitch or passed ball, the hitter can take off.
• No ties. Deadlocked at the end? It goes to a one-on-one showdown tiebreaker.

Layered on top of the rules is the show itself. This is the league famous for a dancing first base coach, a player taking the field on stilts, outfielders backflipping their way into catches, and a game once played in kilts. ESPN, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Sports Illustrated have all come calling — not for the standings, but because there's nothing else in sports quite like it.

The Myrtle Beach games: Coconuts vs. Clowns

Now the part MBU wants to say plain, because a lot of folks are going to get it wrong: the Savannah Bananas themselves are not the team taking the field in Myrtle Beach.

The Bananas created Banana Ball and headline the World Tour, but the tour travels with a whole league of teams — and the ones playing here are the Loco Beach Coconuts and the Indianapolis Clowns, facing off both nights at Pelicans Ballpark.

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That's not a bait-and-switch, and it's not a lesser show. It's the same league, the same rules, the same stilts-and-backflips circus, played by two of its own teams. If you go expecting yellow jerseys with "Bananas" across the chest, you'll be confused. If you go expecting the full Banana Ball experience — you will get exactly that.

How tickets actually work (read this part twice)

Here is the single most important thing on this page: there is no regular ticket sale. You cannot just decide in March that you'd like to go and buy a seat.

The only way in is the Ticket Lottery List at bananaball.com. Put your name on the list, and you're in the pool when seats get released. And the list closes on Saturday, October 31, 2026 — barely two weeks from the day this is being written. After October 31, that door shuts, and there's no MBU tip, trick, or hookup that reopens it.

So the move is simple and it has a deadline:

1. Go to bananaball.com and join the Ticket Lottery List before October 31, 2026.
2. Do it for both nights if you can — Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20, 2027.
3. Then sit tight and watch your email when the lottery runs.

Questions about the Myrtle Beach stop itself? The Pelicans are the home team on this one: MyrtleBeachPelicans.com or (843) 918-6000.

Why this is a big deal for the Strand

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Pelicans Ballpark has been the Strand's ballpark since long before it had that name — 1251 21st Ave N, right across from Broadway at the Beach, home of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans and a whole lot of summer nights for local families.

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A stop like this is the national spotlight picking our yard. The Banana Ball World Tour plays the biggest rooms it can find, and for its 2027 swing through the Carolinas, it picked the Grand Strand. Two nights in March — right when the beach is waking back up for spring — with the whole country's weirdest, happiest baseball show in the middle of it. That's the kind of weekend that puts Myrtle Beach in front of people who've never thought about visiting before.

MBU's advice? Don't just be proud of it. Be in the stands for it. That means the lottery list, and that means before October 31.

MBU will keep this page updated

This story isn't done — the lottery hasn't run, ticket release dates haven't been announced, and MBU expects more details between now and March. As the Pelicans and the tour release news, this page gets updated with it, so bookmark it and check back.

When game week gets here, expect MBU's cameras around the ballpark, too — the highlights will land on the Grand Strand Video Map at www.myrtlebeachunlocked.com/video-map, right alongside MBU's videos from the rest of the Strand.

Are you putting your name in the lottery — and if the Coconuts and the Clowns both come to play, who are you rooting for? Tell MBU in the comments.

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