Somebody up there who likes epic baseball games also likes Brad Paisley .

“I would like to be called Mr. More Baseball,” the country star tells Variety , the day after singing the National Anthem at a World Series game that went to a record-tying 18th inning. “If you’d like more baseball, I’m your guy.”

It’s not that this was an isolated occurrence. The previous time a World Series game went to an 18th inning, back in 2018, Paisley also happened to be singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” In fact, all four times he has sung the anthem before a Series game, it has gone into extra innings, although not always as radically as these two instances.

A few wags have wondered if this is “the Brad Paisley curse,” but most baseball fans would be more likely to qualify as something like “the

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