Darryl Strawberry is the latest and most emphatic former Met to defend Lenny Dykstra over charges of racism levied by Ron Darling in his new book.
Strawberry insisted Tuesday that he “never” heard Dykstra say the racist things Darling alleges he shouted at Boston pitcher Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd before Game 3 of the 1986 World Series, while adding he’s “totally shocked” and “very disappointed” in the SNY analyst for “stepping on a man’s life when he’s down,” referring to Dykstra’s ongoing legal problems in recent years.
“You don’t do that. … You don’t make up things about a person that other players didn’t hear or other players didn’t know about,” Strawberry said on “The Michael Kay Show” on ESPN Radio.