NEW YORK — It was not rain or lightning that introduced the Mets and Phillies‘ sequence opener to a quick halt throughout Monday evening’s sequence opener at Citi Area.
After Alec Bohm grounded right into a double play within the prime of the fifth inning, there was a difficulty raised with a pair of parabolic microphones that flanked each side of the batter’s eye in heart area.
The umpires got here collectively within the infield and after a dialogue, the massive dish-shaped microphones, which had been in place for a number of years based on SNY, have been then eliminated earlier than the Phillies’ subsequent at-bat.
After throwing a group of warm-up pitches amid the 14-minute delay, Mets reliever Jose Castillo induced an inning-ending floor ball to second base, a lot to the merriment of the impatient followers at Citi Area.

