Fans react to wild dimensions for Savannah Bananas at Kyle Field
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Fans are getting wild already over some wild and crazy baseball dimensions at venerable Kyle Field for Saturday night’s Savannah Bananas extravaganza.
At a college football stadium that houses Texas A&M and annually presents opponents with a daunting challenge with the noise level, Kyle Field will for 1 special night morph into a colossal baseball park with potentially over 100,000 fans that could make this the Bananas’ biggest showcase ever.
But the possible crowd size and the historical backdrop are only half of the charm going on in College Station on Saturday night. The other part are the, shall we say, quirky dimensions that will greet batters when they come to the plate at Kyle Field. Hey, it’s a football stadium, not the Texas A&M baseball park, so let’s just say that left field presents a short porch, to say the least, while right field will present a little more of a challenge to get the ball out of the park.
Enter a Savannah Bananas spokesperson for clarification on this baseball madness in a football stadium. According to that team spokesperson, the official dimensions of Kyle Field for this baseball treat are 185 feet to left field, 261 feet to dead center field, 375 feet to right field and an absurd 429 feet to the deepest part of the makeshift park.
Naturally, social media went wild over the crazy dimensions. Here is just a sampling of that social media reaction to this Kyle Field craziness:
While Texas A&M’s football stadium will host the Savannah Bananas, the Aggies baseball team will be trying to play its way to the College World Series next month. Here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying about the top teams in the mix to get to Omaha, which will present batters with a little more normal hitting dimensions than Kyle Field:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
