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Mary Clarke

MLB fans compared Ingrid Andress’s bizarre national anthem at the Home Run Derby to Fergie’s

The national anthem isn’t the easiest song to sing, but you never want to end up beefing it on national television.

That is, unfortunately, what happened to Ingrid Andress on Monday, who sung the national anthem ahead of the 2024 Home Run Derby. Her performance before the event was … not great, to say the least. So much so that even Alec Bohm of the Philadelphia Phillies had to stifle his reaction.

The entire affair certainly brings back memories of Fergie’s famously bad national anthem performance at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, and MLB fans made those thoughts known on social media after the anthem was over.

For those morbidly curious, here’s how Andress’s anthem sounded on TV during the Home Run Derby.

Yeah, that’s definitely entering the pantheon of choppy national anthem performances. MLB fans, predictably, made reference to Fergie’s NBA All-Star anthem performance after all was said and done.

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