What a foul ball.
Former Met Roger McDowell hurled anti-gay slurs at a group of fans, then threatened a father in front of his twin 9-year-old daughters after being asked to strike the bad language, the irate dad said yesterday.
“Kids don’t f- – king belong at the baseball park,” McDowell, the Atlanta Braves pitching coach, shouted at Justin Quinn, after the dad complained that his children heard the former reliever ask three men, “Are you three giving it to each other up the a- – ?”
McDowell apparently became unhinged during batting practice before Saturday’s game in San Francisco, the dad said.
McDowell — a member of the storied 1986 World Series champion Mets — also made lewd motions with a bat, he said, before threatening Quinn with it.
Quinn, 33, and his lawyer, Gloria Allred, want Major League Baseball to fine McDowell, who issued a statement yesteday apologizing to “everyone for my actions.”