MLB Legend Lenny Dykstra Hospitalized After Suffering A Stroke

Lenny Dykstra, former baseball player for the New York Mets, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

According to reports, Dykstra was initially placed in the Intensive Care Unit but is making significant progress with his health scare and has been moved out.

After being in the hospital for days, Dykstra's former Mets teammates, Darryl Strawberry, and Kevin Mitchell, have confirmed that he is in good spirits and out of the ICU. The good pals revealed that they had spoken to Dykstra a day earlier, and he is awaiting further evaluation at UCLA Medical Center, where he was hospitalized.

"He knew it was me, so that is always a good sign. He's in the process of recovering," Strawberry stated while rating the former center fielder as an 8.5 on a scale of 1 to 10 as regards his health.

Mitchell, on the other hand, said this of his former teammate, "He’s laying down, but he is being Lenny. We get to an age now where we have got to take care of ourselves. I told him he had to take more care of himself. You can't let stress bother you. He's been through a lot. I love him with all my heart."

Details of Dykstra's hospitalization are not fully known. However, Mitchell confirmed that he might remain under supervision for one more week before he is discharged.

Dykstra has been battling his demons since he retired in 1996 at the age of 35 after a career filled with injuries. He was charged with grand theft auto in 2011 and a year later pled guilty to bankruptcy fraud. The former athlete has also been accused of sexual assault and faced third-degree terroristic threats after threatening to kill an Uber driver in 2018 among an onslaught of crimes.

Strawberry, while defending his friend's shaky past, told the New York Post, "I worry about a lot of guys that I have played with, what’s happening with them, and he’s one of those guys. He's a special friend and I will never turn my back on him and say negative things about him because his life has had some challenges. We've all had challenges."

He continued, "I think a lot of times people look at a person and say, 'Look at what happened to him.' It's not for us to judge people. If you are not trying to help the situation it's better to not say anything. That is clearly what I believe."

Dykstra played with Strawberry and Mitchell on the 1986 Mets championship team and was with the New York team until 1989 when he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. The MLB star's career boasted .285 battings with 81 homers, 404 RBIs, and 285 steals in 1,278 games.