The following day, the band returned to Yankee Stadium for the first time since the Big Four show several years ago. Today was closing pitcher Mariano Rivera’s retirement ceremony. For years, he’s taken to the mound to the strains of “Enter Sandman,” and it didn’t take long to piece together that with the band in town the night before, that they might play his signature song as part of the ceremony. And sure thing, as 50,000 attendees got to the game for the stadium, they noticed a set of drums and amps in the outfield. Later, as Mo took the mound, the band, with their own pinstriped jerseys, took to the stage to play the song. It was a fitting sendoff to one of the Yankees’ finest. It doesn’t look like the band is done yet their promotional blitz yet, either. Metallica fans with SiriusXM can tune in to Howard Stern tomorrow to hear the band on the show. That is, if they can tear themselves away from the Mandatory Metallica channel.

Set List, The Apollo Theater 9/21

Hit The Lights
Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightening
Harvester of Sorrow
The Day That Never Comes
The Memory Remains
Broken, Beat & Scarred
Sanitarium
Sad But True
Orion
One
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Creeping Death
Battery
Seek and Destroy