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Brad Paisley has a nickname after continuing his trend of performing the National Anthem at some of the longest World Series games in history.
Most recently, Paisley performed the National Anthem at Game 3 of the 2025 World Series on October 27. That game stretched “a record-tying 18 innings,” Jimmy Fallon said when the country star appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show on Wednesday (November 12). “All four times that you’ve performed the National Anthem at the World Series, the game has gone into extra innings.”
In 2017, World Series Game 2 ran for 11 innings. World Series Game 3 lasted 18 innings in 2018. Last year’s World Series Game 1 ended after 10 innings, and Monday night’s game stretched to 18 innings, according to the MLB.
“I did an interview that day, and they said, ‘this one going into extras?’ I said, ‘no. this is the first one that’ll be nine,’” Paisley said. “And that night, we ’re at inning 17, and I said, ‘ah, you’ve got to be kidding me.’ because I thought I’d never — I thought my one thing in the record books in baseball was that I sang at the longest game in the history of the World Series. Now I’ve done all of them.”
Fallon told Paisley he’d “need a nickname for this,” and Paisley assured him he already has one.
“Oh, I have it. It’s ‘Mr. More Baseball,’” he said, adding that he’ll try his luck with “any sport. You want a long Super Bowl, I’ll do it.”
Paisley and Fallon went on to talk about the 20-foot dragon he received for his 53rd birthday, and the singer-songwriter and guitarist performed a song from his newly-debuted holiday album, Snow Globe Town. Watch the interview here: