Do the Harlem Shake! Watch the latest Savannah Bananas viral hit on Twitter
Some things never die, including the Savannah Bananas' love for the limelight and certain viral dance trends.
The traveling baseball team that has a ball playing baseball is renowned on social media for its outlandish and entertaining antics. The latest one brought back the top dance from the summer of 2013: the Harlem Shake.
The Bananas are on their Banana Ball World Tour, spending April 14 entertaining fans in Columbus, Georgia. Malachi Mitchell stepped up to bat with "Harlem Shake" by Baauer playing. In the now viral video, the camera follows Mitchell to the plate, then shows him and the Bananas dugout breaking out in the iconic dance.
We never want the Harlem Shake to die. And that's exactly why we had our whole team do it while Malachi Mitchell (@oppotaco11) walked up to the plate. pic.twitter.com/JDe2nIkDnS
— Savannah Bananas (@TheSavBananas) April 21, 2022
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The Bananas posted the video on Twitter at 9 a.m. Thursday. By 10 p.m., it had 18,000 likes and was played nearly 680,000 times.
Twitter reacts to Malachi Mitchell's Harlem Shake
Mitchell, a Gainesville High and Florida A&M alum, was living it up on Twitter.
The real ones know the GHS baseball one in the hotel room 😂 https://t.co/SRm1iUSxHD
— Malachi Mitchell (@OppoTaco11) April 21, 2022
Mitchell made a few fans with his starring role.
I am officially rooting for @oppotaco11 to make the majors. https://t.co/ax15SLDgJE
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) April 21, 2022
Malachi Mitchell is a great name
— Squilliam Fancyson (@codonodo) April 21, 2022
If you strike out after doing this you have to go in a back room and eat 5 raw baseballs, it's a rarely enacted by law that Malachi Mitchell must not have heard about https://t.co/EI5B3Ax6HG
— Danny Wooley (@DannyWooley) April 21, 2022
He made sure to let doubters know how the at-bat ended, too.
Yes I did! pic.twitter.com/lFBw6YSK6K
— Malachi Mitchell (@OppoTaco11) April 21, 2022
Mitchell somehow outshone Cy Young winner and World Series champion Jake Peavy, who pitched for the Bananas on Saturday in Birmingham.
This article originally appeared on Savannah Morning News: Savannah Bananas, Malachi Mitchell bring back Harlem Shake during game
