Former MLB Star Barry Zito Debuts With Savannah Bananas: Played His Guitar & Won The Game

This past weekend, former A’s and Giants pitcher Barry Zito returned to the field to throw an inning for the Savannah Bananas before taking a guitar to the third-base coach’s box and singing some songs.

Zito led the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition team from Georgia, to a 4-2 victory over the Party Animals on Saturday in his first game with the squad.

Former MLB Star Barry Zito Debuts With Savannah Bananas: Played His Guitar & Won The Game

Barry Zito, a former MLB pitcher, was regarded as one of the finest in his age group. Zito played in roughly 500 games and had 1885 strikeouts throughout the course of his 15 seasons in the MLB.

The 45-year-old pitcher had a successful MLB career, pitching for the Giants from 2007 to 2013 and the “Moneyball” Athletics from 2000 to 2006. He also won the AL Cy Young award in 2002, was nominated for three All-Star games, and earned San Francisco’s second World Series championship ring.

Zito is the most recent ex-big leaguer to appear in a cameo for the Bananas, an independent baseball club that plays both theater and sport and has its own set of rules. Josh Reddick, a former outfielder for the Athletics, also took the field for the Bananas last season.

Zito was well-known for strumming the guitar in the clubhouse during his career. Under the name Drake Holloway, he now makes songs and performs as a musician. Zito brought a guitar out to the field after his pitching appearance, and he was mic’d up for a baseball song.

Barry Zito played his guitar along the third-base line after throwing an inning and serenaded the audience. Zito, who in 2017 launched his own country music CD, didn’t hold back as he strummed along while carrying out his responsibilities as “the third base coach.”

 

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