{"id":246020,"date":"2025-10-28T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:54:09","slug":"brad-paisleys-incredible-connection-to-historic-18-inning-dodgers-world-series-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246020\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Paisley’s Incredible Connection to Historic 18-Inning Dodgers World Series Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone paying close attention to the pregame festivities for Game 3 of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers knew something weird was going to happen. <\/p>\n

Country music star Brad Paisley, a Dodgers fan, performed the National Anthem before the first pitch on Monday night. It was his fourth time singing at Dodger Stadium before a World Series game since 2017. <\/p>\n

After Monday’s 18-inning thriller that saw the Dodgers win 6-5, MLB.com’s Theo DeRosa<\/a> noted this was the fourth consecutive World Series game that Paisley performed at in Los Angeles that went to extra innings. <\/p>\n

The other times it happened were Game 2 in 2017 against the Houston Astros, Game 3 in 2018 against the Boston Red Sox and Game 1 in 2024 against the New York Yankees. <\/p>\n

Game 3 against the Red Sox seven years ago bears a lot of similarities to Monday’s marathon. It also went 18 innings before Max Muncy’s walk-off homer gave the Dodgers a 3-2 win. Even though it’s not in sole possession as the longest World Series game by innings, it remains the longest one<\/a> by actual time (seven hours, 20 minutes).<\/p>\n

Monday’s game “only” took six hours, 39 minutes<\/a> to complete when Freddie Freeman finally ended it with a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the 18th.<\/p>\n

Even though the games Paisley sings at go longer than expected, most of them do work out in the Dodgers’ favor. They are 3-1 in his four World Series games, with their lone defeat being against the Astros in 2017. <\/p>\n

Given that Game 3 ended around 2:51 a.m. ET, just over 17 hours before first pitch on Tuesday, no one will be mad that Paisley isn’t scheduled<\/a> to perform for Game 4 because it’s going to be hard enough for both teams to find enough pitchers with the energy to make it through nine innings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone paying close attention to the pregame festivities for Game 3 of the World Series between the Toronto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-246020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}