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Brandon McCarthy honors Linkin Park singer with special walk-up song

Brandon McCarthy made a nice gesture for Chester Bennington on Thursday.

On the day Bennington was reportedly found dead in a Los Angeles area apartment at age 41, of an apparent suicide, McCarthy climbed the mound at Dodger Stadium with Linkin Park blasting.

It was a sweet tribute to Bennington, one of two lead singers in the hard rock outfit that broke onto the scene with the multi-platinum album Hybrid Theory and remained active through six more releases.

While McCarthy has kept his Twitter silence as of Friday morning — which is unlike him considering his social media savvy — his account shows numerous likes of tweets about Bennington.