On the same day that Boston Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval admitted to using his cell phone to ‘like’ a photo on Instagram during a game, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said the incident didn’t surprise him.

“It really doesn’t,” Mattingly said. Cell phones, he added, “are just everywhere. You don’t hardly see a guy without his phone, ever. You don’t see anyone without a phone ever anymore. Nothing really surprises me. I know you’re not supposed to tweet or anything like that during a game — no cell phones 30 minutes prior to a game, anything like that. Nothing really surprises me along the cell phone lines.”

Mattingly said he did not know the details of the Sandoval incident. In the Dodgers’ clubhouse, he does not police players’ smartphone usage because the devices can be used for many different things.

“If they need an emergency phone call or whatever they need to do on it, you would expect them to still be able to do that and be ready to play,” Mattingly said.

“In general, cell phone usage is not going away. It’s just not. Obviously you don’t want it to be near the dugout, anything like that. It’s really something that’s almost impossible to control. It’s not worth the fight.”