exclusive Mike Vaccaro How Darryl Strawberry saved Mets teammate Lenny Dykstra from drug-filled rock bottom By Mike Vaccaro Published April 13, 2026, 3:38 p.m. ET Lenny Dykstra (left) and Darryl Strawberry pose together before the game when the New York Mets played the Arizona Diamondbacks Thursday, April 9, 2026 at Citi Field in Queens, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post Darryl Strawberry knows the sound, as well as anyone. He knows the feeling that pours into your heart and pimples your skin and leaves you more than a little breathless. None of this has anything to do with launching home runs over the sky. None of it involves the surreal stamp of success that accompanies a tour up the Canyon of Heroes.
This one’s different: more emotional, more resonant, more personal.
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