{"id":653509,"date":"2026-03-31T00:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653509\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:22:43","slug":"san-diego-padres-closer-mason-millers-entrance-is-metal-af-thanks-to-korns-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653509\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres Closer Mason Miller&#8217;s Entrance Is Metal AF Thanks to Korn&#8217;s &#8220;Blind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego Padres\u2019 new closer Mason Miller made his first appearance of the season on Saturday night against the Detroit Tigers, and his walkout to mound was metal as hell, thank to his entrance music being the 1994 <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/korn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Korn<\/a> classic \u201cBlind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Miller got the call to the mound to preserve the Padres\u2019 3-0 lead in the ninth inning, the stadium went dark, and Korn\u2019s \u201cBlind\u201d began to play, with singer Jonathan Davis\u2019 trademark \u201cAre You Ready?\u201d scream echoing through Petco Park.<\/p>\n<p>Miller was promoted to the closer role this season after being a setup man last year. When asked prior to the season what his entrance music would be, the pitcher was coy, only saying, \u201c\u201cThe song\u2019s not for me, it\u2019s for everybody else. I hope everybody else enjoys it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>With the adrenaline flowing from the nu-metal pioneers\u2019 first-ever single, Miller shut down the Tigers to earn his first save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres are no stranger to having a relief pitcher with electrifying entrance music, as Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman used to famously walk out to AC\/DC\u2019s \u201cHells Bells.\u201d And perhaps the most iconic walkout music ever for a closer is Metallica\u2019s \u201cEnter Sandman,\u201d which played at Yankee Stadium whenever the legendary Mariano Rivera took the mound.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Mason Miller\u2019s very metal entrance below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres\u2019 new closer Mason Miller made his first appearance of the season on Saturday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-653509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116320937143873032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}