Mets-Phillies parabolic microphone delay at Citi Field sparks backlash — even from Philadelphia broadcasters
Citi Field staff members adjust a microphone during the fifth inning of a game between the Mets and Phillies on Monday. Credit: AP/Pamela Smith
The Phillies were hot about the mic.
The Mets’ game against the Phillies was delayed for about 20 minutes in the fifth inning Monday when third baseman Alec Bohm complained about the glare coming off two parabolic microphones flanking the batter's eye in centerfield after grounding into a double play.
The microphones were removed, but the complaint got plenty of backlash . . . even from the Phillies’ own broadcasters.
"OK Alec, you had a good defensive game but what really kind of got to me? You caused a 19-minute delay on something that's been there since at least 2017,” said analyst Ricky Bottalico on the Phillies’ postgame show. “We went back and checked. That exact same thing has been there since 2017."
SNY’s Gary Cohen called it “one of the sillier delays I’ve ever seen.”
Mets manager Carlos Mendoza, meanwhile, took it in stride.
“I don’t know if somebody turned it because the one from the left side wasn’t the problem,” Mendoza said. “So they complained and obviously we made an adjustment and that was all there was to it.”
Laura Albanese is a reporter, feature writer and columnist covering local professional sports teams; she began at Newsday in 2007 as an intern.
