{"id":742575,"date":"2026-07-04T03:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/742575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:36:13","slug":"after-a-delay-savannah-bananas-bring-fan-first-baseball-experience-to-iowa-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/742575\/","title":{"rendered":"After a delay, Savannah Bananas bring fan-first baseball experience to Iowa City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; Fans who stuck out the lightning delay at Kinnick Stadium were treated to a massive party-like atmosphere, where the Savannah Bananas and the Firefighters faced off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bananas Head Coach Tyler Gillum said the people of Iowa have made a strong impression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIowa\u2019s great. I mean, it\u2019s the people. Everywhere we go, it\u2019s about the people, you know, and these people are so fired up to see us,\u201d Gillum said. \u201cWe signed autographs. When we come to every city, we love the traditions of every city and every stadium. And this one, it\u2019s got so many great traditions here and we\u2019re going to have some fun tonight. We\u2019ve got some surprises for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team incorporated the UI Stead Family Children\u2019s Hospital in their game and entertainment, participating in The Wave.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; Fans who stuck out the lightning delay at Kinnick Stadium were treated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,648,7716,6236,30861,6223,1358,2536,8043,185],"class_list":["post-742575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-hawkeyes","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-city","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-local-news","tag-local-sports","tag-savannah-bananas","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116859619456455433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}