Baseball star apologizes for sending tweets calling people ‘gay,’ ‘fags’ and ‘n****’.

Michael Kopech had his Major League Baseball debut this week (Jon Durr/Getty)

A baseball star has admitted being forced to delete tweets with anti-gay and racist slurs.

​​Michael Kopech, a pitcher who made his Major League Baseball debut this week for the Chicago White Sox, called people “gay,” “n****” and “a Mexican rapist version of Super Mario” in the posts.