R.A. Dickey was ordered to remove bracelets from his left wrist. (Getty Images)

All season long, Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey has worn a pair of bracelets on his left arm, just above his glove. That is until he came to Cincinnati.

Before the second inning of Dickey's start against the Reds, home plate umpire James Hoye went out to the mound and told Dickey he'd have to remove the bracelets. The Mets trainer came out with a pair of scissors and he cut them off.

As Dickey looked over at the Reds dugout, the next batter, Jay Bruce, could be seen laughing and telling Dickey, "It wasn't me." And it wasn't Reds manager Dusty Baker, either. Instead, Mets manager Terry Collins said crew chief Jim Joyce said the league had instructed umpires to enforce uniform regulations. Collins said he thought it got into Dickey's head.

"These guys do things, they get into patterns, they wear the same shirts, they wear the same pants, they wear the same socks, they wear the same shoes, and there's some other things that go along with all of their routing," Collins told reporters, according to the New York Times.

As for the origin of the bracelets, Dickey answered that on Twitter last month:

After the game, Dickey went to Twitter again, saying his poor performance -- five runs on 10 hits in six innings, including three home runs -- wasn't because he lost his bracelets.

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