Score one for Team Dykstra.
Wally Backman became the latest former Met to chime in on the feud between Lenny Dykstra and Ron Darling over whether Dykstra shouted racial slurs at Red Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd from the on-deck circle during the 1986 World Series, as Darling claims he did.
“I was on deck with Lenny and I’ll leave it at this: I know he didn’t say that,” Backman said Monday on WGBB 1240-AM. “He did not say that. That’s a fact.”
Reached by The Post, Backman declined to comment further. But he was the one batting directly behind Dykstra in the Mets lineup for the game in question at Fenway Park.