Take me out to the precinct!
Boozy Bomber fans might want to pass the car keys to sober friends — as crackerjack cops set up DWI checkpoints near Yankee Stadium to catch drivers running afoul of the law, The Post has learned.
A Post reporter was stopped while driving home Friday night on Edward L. Grant Highway and University Avenue, and cops told him they were checking drinkers coming from The House That Ruth Built.
Three other checkpoints were set up in the area surrounding the stadium, sources said.
There was at least one DWI bust at the Grant Highway checkpoint and four more in The Bronx, but it wasn’t clear if the motorists had just left the ballpark.
Other checkpoints were set up at 146th Street and the Grand Concourse and in Manhattan on 155th Street near the Macombs Dam Bridge and on 179th Street, the sources said.
The NYPD sporadically sets them up around the Stadium after games, a police source explained.
But these cops are not the same ones who police the Stadium as part of a special game-day unit.
It wasn’t clear if Met fans are subject to the same level of scrutiny around Citi Field.
Police said the checkpoints are part of a citywide drunken-driving crackdown — and insisted they’re not meant to target Yankee fans in particular.
Still, the checkpoints held up fans driving home after Friday night’s 6-4 Bomber victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, said a Major League Baseball source.
They “created a terrible bottleneck for [those] trying to leave via car,” the source said.
Damian Lucadamo, 36, of Brooklyn, who drove to that game, called the whole idea overkill.
“I don’t really think it’s necessary,” he said. “Nobody from New York really drives, anyway.
“Everybody knows the traffic sucks, and odds are you’re gonna drink a few beers.” he added.
“It’s smarter to cab it.”