Texas earned its 9th World Series berth, but a vulgar hot mic moment overshadowed the shutout. In a game where the Texas Longhorns Women’s Softball Team punched their ticket to their 9th Women’s College World Series, defeating Arizona State on Sunday night, something else caught fans’ attention.

During the 5-0 shutout win for Texas, the ESPN broadcast caught an NSFW hot mic incident that has gone viral.

“L–k my b——–k,” was heard during the broadcast of the Women’s NCAA game as reported by Awful Announcing.

Teagan Kavan threw a complete game while allowing only 5 hits, as the Texas offense backed her. Katie Stewart’s 3rd-inning 2-run single proved decisive. Texas’s pitching shut out Arizona the rest of the way, and they won the Austin Super Regional.

In what was supposed to be a proud moment for the Texas Women’s Softball team, the fan incident distracted the community.

During ESPN’s live broadcast of the softball game, a fan suddenly made an explicit comment to the viewing audience directly into a microphone during the top of the 7th inning. Covering the incident for Awful Announcing, Matt Yoder noted it’s unclear why the fan acted the way they did. The moment spread all over socials in an instant.

Broadcasters usually place microphones near stands because they want to capture fan emotions during the game. And one noticed the same to create a viral but awkward moment by making an NSFW comment.

ESPN’s play-by-play announcer, Kevin Brown, never reacted and continued discussing the game as if nothing had happened. But this isn’t the first time an ESPN hot mic has caught such a moment.

Back in 2022, at the Little League World Series, there was a similar moment.

During Iowa’s 6-3 victory, a player joked to the coach, “It’s for ESPN so they can come back. Because ESPN likes this.”

The player also jokingly said that the game is “fixed” for TV Drama.

Hot mics are designed to capture raw emotion, and sometimes, they do exactly that, for better or worse. And one such viral moment came in MLB, too.

MLB umpires blame fans for being loud

During the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Washington Nationals on March 29, a viral hot mic moment was caught.

In the 2 inning, Nico Hoerner stole second base with Dansby Swanson at the plate. Seconds later, home-plate umpire Jim Wolf believed that Nationals catcher Drew Millas requested an ABS challenge for the pitch. Wolf activated his microphone and announced that Washington was challenging, but Milas’s reaction said otherwise.

“Oh no, no, no,” Millas exclaimed after hearing Wolf announce the challenge. But the moment truly exploded after Wolf’s comments on the active microphone.

“Damn crowd is too damn loud,” he remarked while fans continued roaring in the background.

Chicago fans created a loud atmosphere with the team playing just the 2 game of the season. The crowd was loud enough for a postseason game.

The Cubs went on to win the game 10-2, while this viral moment caught the eye of many fans. And now, with the season almost at its halfway mark, the ABS mic might start to heat up more.