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Oil Can Boyd says he didn’t hear Dykstra ‘slurs,’ but believes Darling

Even Oil Can Boyd is squeaking over the Ron Darling-Lenny Dykstra feud.

The former Red Sox pitcher said Tuesday he didn’t hear Dykstra hurling racial epithets at him from the on-deck circle before Game 3 of the 1986 World Series, as Darling alleges in his new book — though Boyd also said “yes” when asked if he believed Darling’s accusations.

“Honestly, I don’t know anything about it,” Boyd said Tuesday on the “Carlin, Maggie and Bart” show on WFAN. “I was even speaking with my spouse … the last 24 hours or so about it, just briefly, and I said to her, ‘Baby, I don’t even know, you know?