A player donning a racing helmet backflipped onto home plate for a walkoff win — of an inning. A fan caught a foul ball to win $50,000 for another fan. A player on stilts recorded a strikeout.

It was anything but a normal night at PNC Park as the Savannah Bananas took over Friday, and the capacity crowd couldn’t get enough.

The barnstorming team that has sold out stadiums across the country and gathered millions of followers on social media delighted Pittsburgh as they battled the Texas Tailgaters in their modified form of baseball called “Banana Ball” on the first night of a two-game stand.

The game was decided by one of Banana Ball’s signature rules: the “showdown tiebreaker.” The teams went back and forth with one hitter facing a defense that had only two or three players on the fiel

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