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MLB umpire Bob Davidson asks unruly fan at Phillies game to be removed

PHILADELPHIA — Hey leather lung, yer out!

An unruly fan attending Tuesday night’s game between the San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies was escorted from his seat in the sixth inning shortly after a verbal confrontation with an umpire.

Plate ump Bob Davidson stopped the game, walked toward where the fan was sitting and had words with him after the man was yelling loudly in Davidson’s direction. The fan was sitting 15 rows from the field behind the visitors’ dugout.

Davidson said the fan heckled him for two straight batters, but he halted the game with the next hitter up when Davidson felt the fan made a sexual reference and used foul language.