Morgan Wallen performs ’98 Braves’ at the Billboard Music Awards: Watch

Wallen was also chosen to close the event, but instead of performing his award-winning song “Last Night,” he went with “98 Braves,” his ode to Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves, which “compares the relationship that has deteriorated with the titular Atlanta baseball team, Which was torn during the regular season only to bounce back during the league championship series Rolling Stone describes the song In review One thing at a time Where the path appears.

He appropriately performed the song from Truist Park in Atlanta, which is home of the Braves, during his One Night at a Time tour. Along with his fans, ’98 Braves pitchers John Smoltz and Tom Glavine were in attendance. The Braves introduced the singer as he accepted his award.

“As the song says, ‘Win some, you lose some.’ ‘The last awards show I went to, we went home empty-handed,’ he said. ‘And this, I don’t have enough hands for all of them.’ So, either way, I promise I’ll stay the same regardless of whether we go home with a 10 or a zero. I’ll give you my all every night, every time I go into the studio. So, thank you for this award – all these awards are really fair, it’s for my fans, man. Thank you very much guys. Thank you.”

“You took a kid from East Tennessee who drove a two-door Toyota Tacoma and turned me into one of Billboard’s top artists, so God bless you all,” he concluded.