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Just in time for Game 3 of the American League Divisional Series on Wednesday night in the Bronx, the Yankees say they’ve solved their summer peanut shortage.
Fans who attended a game at Yankee Stadium in August or September may have noticed peanuts were difficult to find. For weeks at the end of the summer, the classic ballpark snack was unavailable at most locations throughout the stadium.
“We had delays in receiving product toward the end of the summer,” a Yankees spokesperson told Front Office Sports.
Legends Global—the food and hospitality company that services Yankee Stadium and is jointly owned by the Yankees, Jerry Jones, and private equity firm Sixth Street—called it a “temporary disruption” from Bazzini, the nut conglomerate, and told FOS it “supplemented with other brands of peanuts starting in late August” to make up for the shortage.
All 30 MLB ballparks sell peanuts. Bazzini declined to comment for this story.
Jeff Sunday, a pseudonymous sports betting influencer, noticed the peanut shortage on Sept. 22 when he attended a Yankees game. He says multiple concession workers told him they had not had any peanuts in stock for about a month. A video he recorded at the game includes a vendor saying, “We haven’t had any for the last few home stands.”
When FOS attended the Red Sox–Yankees wild-card game Sept. 30, no peanuts could be found anywhere on the 300 seating level, and two food workers said the ballpark was still all out.
“I went to like four different locations looking for peanuts, and everyone I asked was confused,” Sunday told FOS. “Clearly there wasn’t some memo sent around explaining it to all the ballpark workers.”
Legends Global says Yankee Stadium will be fully stocked with Bazzini peanuts for the rest of the playoffs—which may be only one more game.
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