Fans at Yankee Stadium use cell phones to help light field after power outage

#thatAwkwardMoment when the Yankees dont pay their electric bill and the fans need to use their phone lights lol pic.twitter.com/SWJ8HLSU4L

— Tøm Catt™ (@Tom_Catt) April 11, 2015

During the 12th inning of Friday’s game between the Yankees and Red Sox, a bank of lights went out at Yankee Stadium causing a delay. In an effort to keep play going, fans used the flashlight features on their cell phones to provide additional lighting.

Play resumed after 16 minutes, according to the broadcast.

It figures a game between the Red Sox and Yankees, which seem to regularly take forever to complete, would experience a stoppage of play in extra innings. It wasn’t fireworks inadvertently going off or a bird evading the grounds crew in Cleveland, but it was another unexpected interruption nonetheless. Of course, this all happens after baseball made a concerted effort to try to speed up the game with new pace of play rules.

Photo via: Twitter/JMastrodonato