BALTIMORE -- At first glance, Zach Britton doesn’t seem like an old-school closer. He doesn’t have a cool nickname like Goose or Quiz. He doesn’t drop from the side like Kent Tekulve or Dan Quisenberry. He doesn’t have crazy facial hair like Rollie Fingers or Al Hrabosky.

“No throwing in a chew before I go in,” Britton says. “No crazy hair, no yelling at people with that weird gaze that guys used to have back in the day when you thought they were going to rip some guy's head off. I got none of that going for me.”

The one old-school element he does have going for him -- besides the fact that he uses AC/DC for his walkout music -- is the ability to pull off a multi-inning save, something the likes of Fingers and Quisenberry excelled at.

Zach Britton has nine multi-inning saves since becoming the closer early in 2014. Rob Carr/Getty Images

In Wednesday night’s 5-2 win over Seattle, Britton entered the game with one out in the top of the eighth inning and the bases loaded. He struck out colossal Korean slugger Dae-Ho Lee, got Chris Iannetta to ground out to end the threat, then came back out for the ninth to finish the job for his 11th save, tied for most in the American League.

Although it was Britton’s first multi-inning save of the season, he’s no stranger to working overtime. Last year, he had five multi-inning saves, which ranked second in the AL behind Cleveland’s Cody Allen (seven). Since Britton became Baltimore’s closer in May 2014, nine of his 84 saves have required him to throw more than one frame. That’s a rate of 11 percent. By comparison, across baseball 7 percent of saves this season have been more than one inning according to ESPN Stats & Info. In other words, Britton is more old-school that one might think. And he’s perfectly fine with that.

“I like being able to do the multi-inning thing,” says the 28-year old lefty, a converted starter who last year, in his first full season as closer, was named an All-Star. “I can throw two innings. I can throw three innings. Don't just think I’m regulated to one inning.”

While Britton doesn’t mind punching in early, the perception that many of his colleagues do mind bothers him.

“I hate the stigma, and some closers do it. I’m not going to name names, but some guys straight up tell their coaches, 'Hey, I'm a one-inning guy. I'm a closer.' To me, there's more value to being a multi-inning guy. If I'm needed in the seventh or eighth, that's just how it is.”

Those situations do present their own unique challenges.

“You're warm, your adrenaline is pumping, you're locked in focus-wise, then you go back into the dugout, sit down, cool off, then you have to go warm up and refocus.”

In times like that, Britton leans on his experience as a starter.

“I don’t sit down in the dugout. I stay focused, stay on my feet. I run through the pinch-hitting options, who I'm going to face, run through what I want to do to each guy that's coming up.”

He doesn’t play with his crazy facial hair because, well, he doesn’t have any. Because, you know, he’s not old-school. At least not on the outside.

“My mustache is brutal” Britton says. “I tried to grow one this offseason. I also tried the soul patch for a while but my wife said I looked stupid.”

In the meantime, he’s contemplating alternative means of achieving a look that matches his relatively old-school workload.

“Maybe I’ll bust out some fake tattoo sleeves.”