It’s hard to believe it’s already been three years since one of the strangest sports broadcasting moments in recent memory unfolded before our eyes on live TV when then-Reds play-by-play man Thom Brennaman—an hour or so after a hot mic picked him up uttering an anti-LGBTQ slur on air—offered an apology during the team’s game against the Royals on Aug. 19, 2020.
During that apology, then-Reds outfielder Nick Castellanos hit a home run, and Brennaman, for some reason, felt it necessary to interrupt his apology to make a note that Castellanos had hit “a drive into deep left field.” By now, you’ve almost certainly seen the clip.
Since then, Castellanos has made it something of a habit by homering while unrelated-but-serious things are happening. So it’s fitting that the king of comedic timing marked Saturday’s anniversary by, you guessed it, hitting another home run.
