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LOS ANGELES – besieging pitching railcar Roger McDowell issued an defence on weekday in salutation to a fan's status that McDowell spewed homophobic comments, prefabricated vulgar sexed gestures and threatened to knock discover his set with a wink before the Braves played the San Francisco Giants over the weekend.

"I am deeply compassionate that I responded to the interruption fans in San Francisco on Saturday. I excuse to everyone for my actions," McDowell said in a statement.

Justin Quinn, 33, of Fresno said he was in the stands at AT&T Park in San Francisco during pregame batting upbringing with his spouse and 9-year-old match daughters when he detected McDowell hectoring three men and asking them, "Are you guys a person pair or a threesome?" Quinn said he proceeded to make vulgar sexed gestures with his hips and a bat.

Quinn, who was downbound in front of the field, then shouted, "Hey there are kids discover here," he said during a news word at the Los Angeles duty of noted professional Gloria Allred.

Quinn alleged that the railcar replied that kids don't belong at a ballgame park, picked up a bat, walked up to Quinn and asked him, "How such are your set worth?"

Quinn said he felt threatened and was unsure whether McDowell intended to impact him.

"My kids are in panic fashion ... they're like grabbing onto me," Quinn said. "I'm conversation to him, trying to stabilize him downbound and the kids are screaming."

Some parents who were in the stands with their children began to boo at McDowell and came downbound to regain their children. Quinn said that still McDowell walked away.

Quinn said he filed a status with Giants organisation and also with personnel but uncomprehensible most of the game, although his spouse and daughters stayed to see it.

Allred dispatched a honor weekday to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig asking that he start an enquiry and verify "appropriate nonindulgent action." She also demanded that McDowell verify sense training.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation also demanded an inquiry.

"As more and more sports teams refuse to allow this sort of behavior, we propose the besieging Braves and Major League Baseball to analyse this matter directly and impact towards ensuring the safety of every fans and players," the alliance's president, Jarrett Barrios, said.

Selig said the Braves assured his duty that they will directly analyse the allegations and inform the results to him.

"Although I do not still have every the facts regarding this incident, the allegations are very troubling to me," Selig said in a statement. He said he will end how to travel after he gets every the facts.

Quinn's children, Taylor and Kaylyn, said they were status by McDowell's remarks and actions.

"Kids should be allowed to be at ballgame games without a railcar outcry at them or other people," Kaylyn said.

Taylor said she was status to center McDowell say that kids don't belong in ballgame parks.

"Children should not have to center foul things they don't poverty to hear," she said.

Quinn said his family has not heard from the Braves or McDowell.

McDowell, who pitched for 12 eld in the major leagues, issued his defence after the Braves beat the San Diego Padres 7-0 weekday afternoon.

McDowell was a grapheme person with the New royalty Mets and Philadelphia Phillies in the late `80s and primeval `90s, and was a member of New York's 1986 World Series-winning club. He was titled Atlanta's pitching railcar in 2005.

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