If I used the terms “baseball” and “vomit-inducing” in the same sentence, you’d think I was talking about the Orioles, right? In most cases, that would be correct. But not today, when a New Jersey man “admits to vomiting assault at Phillies game,” as the headline says.

Matthew Clemmens’ guilty plea will most likely result in probation when he is sentenced at the end of July, prosecutors said.

The incident happened during an April 14 game. Clemmens and friends were sitting behind an off-duty police officer and his two children, doing the things that give Philly sports fans a bad reputation. When one of Clemmens’ friends was ejected, prosecutors said he answered a cell phone call by saying, “I need to do what I need to do. I’m going to get sick.”

At that point, Clemmens stuck his fingers down his throat and vomited on the dad and one of the daughters. (Really.)

Clemmens’ uncle offered a kind-of defense for his nephew a few days later, saying Clemmens was feeling queasy from a few extra beers and “he accidentally vomited, putting his hand in front of his mouth, and vomited on the person in front of him, which was the wrong person.”

Police are still searching for the right person.

Count Montgomery County State’s Attorney John J. McCarthy among those mourning the passing of Law & Order into syndication after last Monday’s broadcast.

McCarthy joked Tuesday that he had developed a fondness for Jack McCoy, the main  prosecutor on the long-running television show, played by Sam Waterston.

“Jack McCoy: my role model,” McCarthy said. “The hard-charging prosecutor hopefully doing some justice along the way.”

McCarthy added he regards Law & Order as “the most realistic” of television’s courtroom dramas.

“They did a pretty good job about educating the public,” he said of the program’s writers. “I thought the show was well done, well researched in terms of the law.”

But Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott D. Shellenberger will shed no tears for the program’s passing.

“I’ve never even seen the show,” Shellenberger said. “It just doesn’t interest me. I’m living law and order every day.”

Where do you think Law & Order ranks on the pantheon of other dearly departed law-related television shows, such as The Defenders, L.A. Law, Night Court, The Practice, Boston Legal and The Paper Chase?