NEW YORK -- It may have gone against team rules and baseball convention, but Mets manager Terry Collins is a human being. So prior to the team's June 12 game against the Braves, given the circumstances, Collins told Jeurys Familia that he could take his cell phone to the bullpen with him.
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Familia's fiancée, Bianca Rivas, was in labor in Hackensack, N.J., at the time, and there was a chance Familia would leave to join her before the end of the game. Collins understood that.