Keith Hernandez remembers Lenny Dykstra chirping at Oil Can Boyd, just not the specifics that Ron Darling describes in his new book.
Hernandez, the first baseman on that 1986 Mets World Series team, said he didn’t hear whether Dykstra directed racial epithets at the Red Sox pitcher before homering to open Game 3 — as Darling, his SNY broadcast partner, alleges in his book, “108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game.”
“We were down two games. Game 3 in Boston and we were all ready to go.