Teoscar Hernández won baseball’s Home Run Derby on Monday night, but everybody has already forgotten the poor guy and his powerful achievement… because we can’t stop talking about Ingrid Andress!
Major League Baseball is hosting their All-Star Game festivities in Arlington, Texas this week, and as happens every summer, part of that celebration included a Home Run Derby. So, to kick it off, the country singer — who has a new single coming out next week — was tapped to sing the National Anthem. But she bombed it. Like, sadly, she really bombed it…
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The rendition was so off-key that fans in the stadium didn’t quite know what to make of her performance. Even the players on the field struggled to hold back laughter. At one point, Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm (pictured above, inset) appeared to be fighting back a laugh after Andress stumbled over an out-of-tune line. But don’t take it from us! Listen for yourselves. Ch-ch-check out this Major League-worthy National Anthem face plant as it happened (below):
Ouch…
Over on X (Twitter), fans were not shy in calling out Andress for bungling and anthem so badly, especially after she billed proudly by an MLB on-screen chyron as a “four-time Grammy nominee.” They shared:
“The Star Strangled Banner”
“Francis Scott Off-Key”
“When you exaggerate on your resume during the interview”
“Hearing that makes me wish we lost to the British…”
“’4-Time Grammy Nominee’ 0-Time Winner & we can all see why.”
“How is she getting Grammy award nominated?”
“I guess we know why they [Grammy nominees] arent grammy wins”
“My dog has been howling for an hour after hearing this!”
“@MLB owes the American people an apology for this one.”
“Who knew Ingrid Andress was the hero we needed to bring a divided Nation together. Finally, we can collectively agree this was one of the worst (if not THE worst) renditions of the Star Spangled Banner by a ‘professional’ singer. On this night, we as a Nation are one.”
…Ouch!!
If you didn’t know Andress before this, she has indeed been nominated for four Grammys — most notably Best New Artist in 2021, where she lost to Megan Thee Stallion. Her most recent album Good Person was released in 2022, and included a collab single with Sam Hunt called Wishful Drinking that blew up pretty big at the time. But other than that, she has been laying low for the last few years before suddenly announcing days ago that she’s got a single called Colorado 9 coming out next Wednesday.
Well, this was NOT a great way to jump back into the spotlight! We hope that single sounds better than her anthem turn! YIKES! Reactions, y’all?! Share ’em (below)…
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