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Held without a run in support of their ace, Dwight Gooden, in the first game of the playoffs Wednesday night, the Mets were ignited yesterday by Len Dykstra and Wally Backman. And the big hitters--Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter and Darryl Strawberry--applied the throttle...
Hernandez hit a two-run triple along with a single and scored a run. Carter had an RBI double, and Strawberry drove in a run with a long sacrifice fly. Backman had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run. And Dykstra had two hits and scored once...
Davis, who became only the second Astro to hit 30 or more homers in a season with 31 this year, hit a 1-0 pitch from Gooden to straightaway center field to lead off the second. Center fielder Lenny Dykstra was at the wall waiting, but there was no chance...
...Carol Dykstra, 46, lives in a most proper neighborhood of that country. At her Cape-style home in Braintree, Mass., the shy, dark-haired wife of a silverware-company executive can be as reserved as the framed family pictures in the living room. But beneath the propriety is the heart of a humorist. Dykstra struggled to be a comic writer for a decade, but got little encouragement until Bombeck responded to her advice-seeking letter by urging perseverance, "because there isn't enough humor in the world." Dykstra pressed on, and two years ago began selling" whimsical pieces...
...While Dykstra attacks the media hype of subjects such as soap-opera wives and Prince William's wardrobe, her best work pokes giggles into the generation gap. Climbing three flights of stairs to inspect her 23-year-old son's first apartment left her feeling "like Jane Fonda's mother in Barefoot in the Park." Her teen-age daughter is fond of making over Mother: "Mom, lemme mayo your hair." And a saccharine greeting card, "To a Special Daughter," prompted Dykstra to write: "It's their knack for leaving razors face up in the shower that...