{"id":176075,"date":"2025-08-26T04:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176075\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T04:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:21:12","slug":"mets-phillies-game-delayed-by-outfield-microphone-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176075\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets-Phillies game delayed by outfield microphone complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets got a surprising mic check on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies, visiting Citi Field to play their NL East rivals, caused a minutes-long delay in the top of the fifth inning when they claimed they were distracted by the glare off a parabolic microphone in the outfield.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia third baseman Alec Bohm raised the issue after he grounded into a double play \u2014 which came after righty Kodai Senga was replaced by southpaw Jose Castillo, drastically changing the batter\u2019s sightline with the game tied at 3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the delay left plenty of folks scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the sillier delays I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d SNY\u2019s Gary Cohen said.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t alone in the gripe department.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies\u2019 Alec Bohm raised the issue after grounding out in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets game was delayed against the Phillies on Aug. 25. Screengrab via X\/@ah_pod<\/p>\n<p>An umpire reacts during a delay at the Mets\u2019 game Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus, both teams are playing with the same set of circumstances. Let\u2019s move on and get the game going,\u201d WFAN\u2019s Boomer Esiason <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/7BOOMERESIASON\/status\/1960141722635133136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>, adding, \u201cThis Mets\/Phillies delay is asinine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets got a surprising mic check on Monday night. The Phillies, visiting Citi Field to play their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,2083,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-176075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115093155669846677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}