Tom Gamboa swept around the visitor's clubhouse at Eastwood Field, and saw nearly every player's face glued to iPhone screens and Android screens. Though they were stuck in Niles, Ohio -- a small city on the Mahoning River -- the members of the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets Class A affiliate, were really in Flushing, Queens, tracking the movements Michael Conforto, of one of their own.
Gamboa checked his phone, too.
"To a man, as I walked through the locker room, I saw all our Brooklyn players trying to check the box score to see what he did," said Gamboa, the Cyclones' manager.