Castellanos, a hot hitter who entered the at-bat with a. The righty’s second consecutive four-seamer, approximately the same speed as the preceding pitch, also sailed inside, but this one was higher and hittable. Again Holland’s offering went wide of its target. Again Viloria called for a fastball on the outside corner. On the field, oblivious baseball men stuck to the script, and play proceeded. “If I have hurt anyone out there, I can’t tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart I’m so very, very sorry.” “I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air that I am deeply ashamed of,” he began, seconds after the strike call. But before he did, he made a doomed attempt to restore his reputation and rescue his career. His comment made the rounds on social media, and by the middle of the second game, the pressure and scrutiny had intensified to the point that Brennaman was forced to sign off. About two hours earlier, in the seventh inning of the first game, the 56-year-old Brennaman had casually uttered a homophobic slur on a hot mic, not knowing that the broadcast was back from commercial. Frick Award–winner Marty-geared up for his own delivery in the broadcast booth back at Great American Ball Park. As Castellanos looked back at Navas to lodge a complaint, Fox Sports Ohio’s veteran Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman-son of Cincinnati institution and Ford C.