“The lights going out didn’t catch me totally off guard,” he said.

Lots of other closers have special or intimidating entrances.

Elsewhere in the American League East, the Blue Jays turn Rogers Centre into a sea of red when Jordan Romano enters, while the Orioles played the whistle from The Wire when Félix Bautista was healthy.

In Minnesota, digital flames spread across Target Field for the fire-balling Jhoan Durán, while the Mets’ Edwin Díaz has his signature trumpets over in Queens. And as Yankees fans know, Mariano Rivera famously entered to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”

“It’s a nice step forward,” Matt Blake said of Holmes’ entrance. “Every time we go on the road, we’re like, ‘Man, we’ve got to get Clay a better intro,’ so it was nice to see.”

Holmes acknowledged that his entrance is “a little more subtle” than some of the aforementioned ones, but that’s fine by him. It fits his personality well.

“It’s just a good way to kind of get fans engaged and make the end of the game a little more exciting,” he said. “It’s always fun for the players. It’s fun for the fans. So it’s just a fun thing to be a part of.”

The one thing Holmes wasn’t sure about was the graphics, which could be described as Kaleidoscopic or psychedelic. If you haven’t seen them yet, there are a lot of colors and patterns.

“That’s a good question,” Holmes said when asked where those came from. “I don’t know. I think it’s just the scoreboard people putting something together. I haven’t really seen that cause I’m not really looking up or looking back at the scoreboard. Maybe it’s just something that they thought went with the song. I don’t know where that’s from.”

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