LEXINGTON, Ky. — Banana Ball’s first Kentucky stop drew three straight sold-out crowds to CommonSpirit Ballpark this weekend, a run of full houses the building rarely sees during the Lexington Legends’ regular season.
The Loco Beach Coconuts swept the Indianapolis Clowns in all three games: 5-0 on Friday, Sept. 11, 7-3 on Saturday, Sept. 12, and 5-2 in Sunday’s 12:30 p.m. matinee, according to the league’s results page. The score was, as usual with Banana Ball, beside the point.
The ballpark seats 6,994. The Legends billed the weekend as “three sold-out games” in a Sept. 11 release, and the stands, lawn and concourse bore that out all three days. The Legends have not released attendance figures for the series.
What it cost to get in
Getting a seat took more than money. Banana Ball sells tickets only through a lottery: fans had to join the list at bananaball.com by Nov. 1, 2025, and a random drawing decided who got the chance to buy, with a cap of five tickets per winner, according to the Legends’ October announcement. Season-ticket holders got priority access. Face value was $35, WKYT reported when the dates were announced. Across the 2026 tour, Banana Ball’s general seats run $40 to $60 with premium and “Backstage” tiers starting at $75 and $125, according to a schedule-release roundup.
For comparison, a Legends single-game ticket this season starts around $12 on the lawn, with box seats behind home plate topping out near $50 on resale sites.
Parking was $25 flat for general and premium lots, per the league’s fan guide, compared with $5 for general and $7 for premium parking at a regular Legends game, according to a parking update the club posted in July 2025. Concessions ran higher than a normal Legends night, too: an order of nachos was $16 and a Gatorade $7. Outside food and drink were prohibited, and the bag policy was one clear bag no larger than 12 by 12 by 6 inches.
The show
The afternoon’s signature bit came midway through, when a Coconuts hitter stepped in painted head to toe in metallic silver, in silver shorts and a teal helmet, and took his at-bat standing on a rocker balance board planted in the batter’s box. He hit from the board, ran the bases and finished the trip on the warning track under the CommonSpirit scoreboard, arms out, alongside a stilt-walking Clowns character in red-and-white stripes. Between innings, Clowns players worked a diabolo on the first-base line, fans in gold helmets kicked yoga balls down the baseline in a contest, and kids in the front row played along on toy saxophones and trumpets.
Bananas Foster
Between innings, the show paused for the part of Banana Ball that is not a bit. Bananas Foster, the league’s official nonprofit, founded in May 2023 by Savannah Bananas owners Jesse and Emily Cole, who are foster and adoptive parents, brings a local foster family onto the field at every game. The honorees, whom the organization calls “BFFs,” get Backstage tickets, a meet-and-greet with the team and a $500 gift, according to the nonprofit. The stated goal is to recruit enough foster homes that no child in the system waits for a placement.
The Legends’ turn
The visitors leave the building to a tenant with something to play for. The Legends open the Atlantic League playoffs at CommonSpirit Ballpark this week, their first postseason since winning the league title in their inaugural 2021 season.
Lexington clinched a playoff spot with a 5-2 win over Charleston on Sunday, Sept. 6, and locked up the second-half South Division title on Tuesday, Sept. 8, when Southern Maryland lost, the club said. The Legends finished the second half 37-21 and were 63-58 overall at the time of the clinch.
They face the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in a best-of-five South Division Championship Series. The first two games are at home: Game 1 on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6:45 p.m., and Game 2 on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. Games 3 through 5 are in Waldorf, Maryland, Sept. 18–20, with the last two only if needed, according to the team’s playoff release. Wednesday’s opener is a $2 beer and $2 hot dog night, with dogs welcome for Bark in the Park.
“It’s been five years since the Legends have been in the postseason,” general manager Justin Ferrarella said in the release.
Playoff tickets are on sale at LexingtonLegends.com. The grounds crew has roughly 72 hours to clear the glitter.
Sources
- Banana Ball match results, Sept. 11-13, 2026
- Lexington Legends release, Sept. 11, 2026: Banana Ball Takes over CommonSpirit Ballpark this Weekend
- Lexington Legends, Oct. 9, 2025: Hosting Savannah Bananas World Tour in 2026 (lottery rules)
- WKYT, Oct. 11, 2025: Banana Ball coming to Lexington Legends Field next fall ($35 tickets)
- The Stadium Insiders: Banana Ball 2026 schedule and ticket lottery (tour-wide price tiers)
- SI / OnSI Savannah Bananas fan guide for Lexington (parking, bag policy)
- Lexington Legends Facebook parking update, July 15, 2025 ($5 general / $7 premium)
- Bananas Foster: BFF Celebrations
- Lexington Legends release, Sept. 8, 2026: Legends Crowned Second-Half South Division Champs
- Lexington Legends release, Sept. 9, 2026: Playoff Baseball Returns to Lexington (series schedule)
This article was drafted with AI assistance (claude-fable-5-1) from the reporter’s on-site notes and photographs at CommonSpirit Ballpark on Sept. 13, 2026, and finalized for publication by The Lexington Times. Scores, ticket, parking and playoff details are grounded in the league and team releases cited inline. All photographs were taken by Paul Oliva for The Lexington Times.
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