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A former Major League Baseball pitcher was accused of threatening to “ruin” his socialite lover’s daughter after the teenager spotted him hiding in the bushes near the scene of a fatal hit-and-run.

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Scott Erickson, who previously played for the Twins, Orioles and Dodgers, allegedly threatened now-19-year-old Alexis Grossman after she saw him lurking nearby as her mother, L.A. millionaire Rebecca Grossman, was questioned by police.

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Erickson and Grossman had allegedly been street racing, resulting in the deaths of Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother, eight-year-old Jacob Iskander, on Sept. 29, 2020.

“‘Why did your mom stop? Why did your mom stop?’” Grossman claimed Erickson asked her, during testimony on Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“He seemed very angry. He was frantic,” she continued. “I could smell alcohol on him. He was freaking out. I was scared.”

Erickson allegedly told the teen, “Don’t tell anyone you saw me, or I will ruin you and your family.”

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Grossman told the jury she was out to meet a pizza delivery driver when she saw police cars around her mother’s car.

“I ran out toward her. I was screaming, ‘Mommy, mommy,” Grossman added but a deputy stopped her before she could reach her mother.

She turned to leave and that’s when Grossman says she saw Erickson pop up from his hiding spot in some bushes behind a tree before the two “made eye contact,” according to the Times.

Rebecca Grossman faces two counts of second-degree murder for the brothers’ deaths and if found guilty could face up to 34 years in prison.

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Grossman’s lawyers were using their client’s daughter’s testimony to claim Erickson’s black Mercedes SUV was the vehicle that fatally struck the boys, not Grossman’s white Mercedes.

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The pair allegedly were out drinking at a nearby restaurant when Grossman tailed Erickson and flew past a crosswalk in Westlake Village, Calif., where Nancy Iskander was crossing with her three sons.

The socialite’s breathalyzer test following the crash showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.076%, according to the newspaper, and Valium was also found in her blood.

Ryan Gould, Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, questioned Alexis as to why she never told the deputy at the scene that she saw Erickson hiding.

“I wish I had because, if I had, we wouldn’t be here right now,” she replied, according to the Times.

The teen only told her then-separated parents in 2021, as her mother’s attorneys advised her at the time not to tell anyone.

Later that year, Grossman was questioned if Erickson visited the family’s Westlake home that night and she recalled her saying no.

“I wasn’t trying to protect anyone,” Grossman said during her testimony. “He was a big guy, a baseball player … I was scared.”

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