{"id":254105,"date":"2026-04-06T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254105\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:12:03","slug":"singer-tries-to-stretch-out-national-anthem-at-angels-home-opener-due-to-flyover-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254105\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer tries to stretch out national anthem at Angels home opener due to flyover delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; If you were at the Angels&#8217; home opener on Friday, you may have noticed something a little off during the national anthem performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The game started with a pregame flyover, but the timing wasn&#8217;t quite right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video from fans shows the singer, Alexandra Castle, trying to stretch out the end of the Star-Spangled Banner so the pilots could reach the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The flyover was about 20 seconds late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to The Athletic, it marked the second straight year the Angels have had a flyover issue on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The team would go on to lose to Seattle, 3-1, in extra innings.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; If you were at the Angels&#8217; home opener on Friday, you may have noticed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[112696,163,165,164],"class_list":["post-254105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-112696","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}