Photos: Tempe fans rocked something fierce at Innings Festival 2025

For thousands of Valley residents, this year’s Innings Festival was an enjoyable outing. Locals flocked to Tempe Beach Park on Feb. 21 and 22 for two days of rock, jocks and fun in the sun at the baseball-themed music fest kicking off spring training in the Phoenix area.

Attendees rubbed elbows with retired MLB greats like Evan Longoria and Chili Davis, lost their shit during headlining sets by The Killers and Fall Out Boy and added to the atmosphere of Innings Festival 2025, which we described as a “weird, wild musical celebration.”

This year’s Innings Fest offered more than just live sets and the chance to meet legends of the diamond, though.

Some festivalgoers embraced the baseball theme, taking swings in the batting cages or making like Nolan Ryan in the speed pitch challenge. Others eschewed America’s pastime in favor of playing giant-sized yard games, tipping a few back at kitschy bars sponsored by liquor companies or flipping through bins of CDs and LPs inside a Zia Records pop-up shop.

As is the norm for most big-ticket music festival these days, many folks came to the event dressed to impress — or to simply stand out — sporting costuming, garish wigs and other gear giving off big “look at me” energy. There were even dudes garbed up like superheroes and WWE icons.

Whatever they were doing or wearing, many festivalgoers came to Tempe Beach Park in pursuit of something fleeting yet profound — the shared communal experience Innings Fest provided, albeit temporary. For a brief moment amidst dangerously divisive times, thousands of strangers became a united by their love for music, the thrill of live performance and the joy of losing themselves in the energy of the moment.

Here’s a glimpse at the people of the 2025 Innings Festival in Tempe and what they experienced.