Mets great Lenny Dykstra has suffered a stroke and is hospitalized in Los Angeles, sources confirmed to the Post.
News of Dykstra’s health issues first surfaced on social media when Dolan’s Bar, a business in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, announced that Dykstra had suffered a “mild stroke” and that the former MLB player’s family was surrounding him. It was after I posted on X that I was there.
“He’s healthy and doing well. We just wanted to let him know our thoughts and prayers are with him,” owner Patrick “PJ” Dolan said in the video.
Dykstra, 61, played for the Mets for five seasons from 1985 until he was traded to the Phillies on June 18, 1989.
In five seasons with Flushing, Dykstra appeared in 544 games for the Mets, batting .278 with 30 home runs and 158 RBIs.
He played a pivotal role during the Mets’ 1986 World Series appearance, hitting the game-winning home run in Game 3 of the NL CS vs. the Astros, one of the biggest hits of Dykstra’s career. It is considered.
His go-ahead home run in Game 3 of the World Series against the Red Sox also helped give momentum to the Mets, who had been trailing 2-0 until the start of the series.
Dykstra was named an All-Star three times during his time in Philadelphia and won the Silver Slugger Award in 1993.
He was a career hitter with a career batting average of .285, 81 home runs, and 285 stolen bases.
Off the field, Dykstra has had a bit of a checkered history, especially in recent years.
In 2007, he was named in the Mitchell Report as someone who used steroids in baseball.
The former outfielder has been in a lot of legal trouble, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009, being charged with grand theft auto in 2011, and pleading guilty to bankruptcy fraud in 2012. Ta.
He served time in a California prison and was released in 2013.
In 2018, he was charged with third-degree terroristic threatening after allegedly threatening to kill an Uber driver, but the charges were dropped after he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
And last year, the former MLB player faced legal trouble over unpaid rent on a luxury apartment in the Los Angeles area.
