If you're curious to what brought the Mets and Phillies ' series opener to a brief halt Monday night, here's the explanation.

In the top of the fifth inning at Citi Field, Alec Bohm grounded into a routine double play but what followed was not routine. The Phillies third baseman caught the attention of his first base coach Paco Figueroa, then gestured toward centerfield

There was an issue raised with a pair of parabolic microphones that flanked both sides of the batter's eye in center field. Bohm took issue with the mic in right-center that appeared to glow a brighter white over Mets southpaw reliver Jose Castillo during Bohm's at-bat.

The umpires came together in the infield and after a discussion, the large dish-shaped microphones, which had been in place for several years according

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