New York Daily News

What balls! Straw’s sex in Met games

- BY EVAN GROSSMAN and LEONARD GREENE

FORMER METS slugger Darryl Strawberry says he was scoring on and off the field, launching mammoth home runs at the plate, and clearing the bases with women between innings in the clubhouse.

Details of Strawberry’s shocking double play came out of left field during an interview on Thursday’s edition of “The Dr. Oz Show,” where the lefty long ball hitter went into detail about his sex drive.

“In the middle of games, yeah, I would go between innings, and stuff like that, and run back and have a little party going on,” Strawberry (photo) said. “I thought it was pretty cool. That’s just the addiction, the drive.”

Even when he struggled in the batter’s box, Strawberry said he could still find his swing in the clubhouse, describing how he would dispatch dugout attendants into the Shea Stadium stands to find women who wanted to see him.

Strawberry said the romps were part of the destructiv­e behavior that led to his downfall.

“It’s a behavior that’s not good for anyone,” Strawberry said. “But when you have an addictive personalit­y — like addicts, and alcoholics, and sex addiction — it’s an addictive personalit­y. And we turn it on and turn it off. And it’s not until you have an awakening in your life to get well on the inside, and so many people never get to that place.”

Strawberry played on the notoriousl­y wild Mets teams in the late 1980s. While they won the World Series in 1986, several members of that team have had well chronicled battles with drugs and alcohol.

Teammate Dwight Gooden was a known drug addict who missed the World Series parade because he was feeding his habit. Lenny Dykstra has made a cottage industry of recounting all the drugs he did and women he had sex with during his debauched days and nights in the big leagues.

Strawberry, 55, is now a bornagain Christian and an ordained minister.

He played 17 years in the majors, but said last year his career would have been much shorter if he were playing today because of social media and cell phones with cameras everywhere.

“They would have seen a lot of things they didn’t need to see,” Strawberry said.

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