I wanted these rankings to reflect historical significance, and Hoffman and Mariano Rivera (more on him in a second!) are the only closers in MLB history to record at least 600 career saves.ĭiaz will only soon reach his 200th save in the MLB, so we don’t have history on our side yet. This would probably rank even higher and hit even harder if Robles was a more successful reliever. Which is subtle, because there’s also a black cape over the person-horse’s shoulders, and a staff in its right hand, and another horse’s head on the end of the staff, all of which tend to draw attention from the person-horse’s gasps for oxygen.” Like the horse mask puckering and unpuckering, some poor soul pulling breaths as though through an aquarium filter. “The video materializes above Angel Stadium, love story B-roll splashing across 23,000 square feet of canvas, pulsing through eight million LED lights, a riderless white horse frolics, rose petals waft, a real live person in a rubber horse mask stares from three levels up, behind home plate. Tim Brown wrote about what it was like to watch ( via Yahoo): Using the same song wrestling fans heard when WWE’s The Undertaker came into the ring, Robles may have also had the creepiest entrance music. Hansel Robles was never the most dominant pitcher in baseball, but he had the most memorable entrance video of all MLB relievers. This is the best entrance in professional sports. Otherwise, this is how I rank the best walkout songs in baseball history: Note that songs were excluded if it wasn’t from an actual MLB pitcher (so no “Wild Thing” from the “Major League” movie) or if there was no video that I could find (no “Bad To The Bone” for Dennis Eckersley or Goose Gossage).

The recent hype for Diaz got us thinking: Where does this rank among the best entrances for relief pitchers in MLB history? How does it stack up with “Hells Bells” for Trevor Hoffman and “Enter Sandman” for Mariano Rivera? The recent video of the closer coming into the game for the Mets at Citi Field on Sunday went viral, and a couple recently used it as the walk-out song at their wedding to honor Diaz. Here is everything you need to know about “Narco” by Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet - which is the epic song Diaz uses as he trots to the pitcher’s mound at Citi Field.Īs we recently wrote, Diaz’s tremendous bullpen entrance is exactly what the MLB needs right now. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you probably haven’t spent much time on Twitter. New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz has legitimately become one of the most popular players in baseball this week, and it’s all because of a song.

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