Ray Knight says the truth will come out in court.
“I feel like I’ll be exonerated,” Knight said Monday, when asked if he did anything wrong.
The 1986 Mets World Series hero, arrested Sunday at his Virginia home on assault and battery charges, spoke to WJLA in Washington after an alleged altercation with a 33-year-old man that left both with injuries that required a trip to the hospital.
Knight, 64, did not expand on the circumstances of the arrest, which has him due in court on Jan. 8.
“It seemed to me that it might have been some kind of domestic dispute,” one of Knight’s neighbors, who did not want to be identified, told the ABC affiliate. “They were swearing at each other, voices were raised.”
The neighbor, who said he did not know he lived next to a former major leaguer — Knight, an infielder, made two All-Star teams in his 13-year career and helped lead the Mets’ comeback in the ’86 Series — but said his wife saw some of the fight transpire.
“[My wife] saw one person swing at the other person,” he said. “Like physical swing. Like a punch was thrown.”
Knight, now an analyst for MASN, the Nationals TV network, vowed he would be back to call games.