Howie Rose might not want to put this one in the books.
The longtime Mets radio voice threw out the first pitch on Wednesday night, days before his induction into the franchise’s Hall of Fame.
The toss from the southpaw went wide right, with Rose tapping his throat afterward in acknowledgement he had choked.
While the former Rangers and Islanders play-by-play man seemed to enjoy the moment, it wasn’t long before some of his media cohorts chimed in.
“I can see why Howie doesn’t hit the golf ball straight — too much rotational,” SNY’s Keith Hernandez joked. “Howie, stick to hockey.”
“We’ve all been there Howie,” Gary Cohen said.
Even if Rose doesn’t want to remember the disastrous throw, he’ll at least have his own bobblehead — given to fans in attendance for the series opener against the Phillies — to commemorate the night and his illustrious career.
“It seemed everybody else was getting a bobblehead anyway,” Rose told The Post ahead of the Mets opener this season. “I was starting to feel a little left out.”
For the 69-year-old, who had surgery for bladder cancer, the weekend is really about a much larger picture.
“You never lose sight in this business of the fact that there’s somebody on the other end of that microphone who is absorbing what you say very often in a very personal way,” he told The Post in April. “And then you combine that with some of the honors and platitudes and bobbleheads … they really have a very, very humbling effect.”
