Brad Paisley is 'Mr. More Baseball' after singing national anthem at two World Series marathons

Country superstar Brad Paisley made history Monday night — and this time, it wasn’t for platinum records.

The singer performed the national anthem during a landmark World Series game — an 18-inning matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays. The Dodgers won 6-5 on Freddie Freeman’s homer than ended Game 3 nearly seven hours after Paisley performed.

That marathon tied the record for longest World Series game, and Paisley performed the anthem before the previous one, too. That was seven years and one day prior, when the Dodgers outlasted the Boston Red Sox, also in a Game 3. He also performed the anthem before an 11-inning Game 2 at the 2017 World Series and a 10-inning Game 1 in LA last year.

In an AP interview Tuesday, Paisley said, "It’s kind of cool to know that I sang the anthem at a couple, at the two of the four total Dodger walk-off games that ever happened. The other two were before my time anyway. ... And especially the one that was 18 innings.

"Last night around the 16th inning, I was going “There’s no way this is happening again.” And here we go. And it was really neat. I sat there in the in the seat when it ended last night, just staring, like, “OK, what does this even mean?” And then I didn’t even realize ‘til today when a couple of these statisticians started compiling stuff, I’ve never done this and it didn’t go extras.

"So I said today, I’m available for football games, too. If anybody wants, you know, another quarter or two out of their team.

You can read the rest of the interview here .



(AP Photo Ashley Landis)