Luis Gonzalez

I'm going to make a year.

So, and then you get in there and I remember walking into the door and I'm looking around the locker room and I'm like oh my gosh you know I just talked about Randy and Kurt but I'm like there's Matt Williams there's Luis Gonzalez there's Steve Finley there's Jay Bell there's Reggie Sanders and I'm just like holy smokes this is a bomb squad and And I'm just like, so I became a guy.

No, I became a guy that was the, one of the stars of the team to just a guy that's okay.

I'm just, I'm just a guy here.

They went to, we went three, we go back to Arizona.

Unfortunately, Mariana, who probably hadn't blown a save in like four years in the post season, I think since 97, um, You know, also the best player on the field, the best athlete on the field, probably the best shortstop on the field, even better than Jeter, throws the ball into center field and then the bloop single by Gonzalez for them to win.

But it doesn't take away from how the whole country stood up with us, not against us, but with us to support, you know, everything that was going on and just supporting the American way.

So, I know it's not a happy memory for you, for me, for any other Yankee fan.

So these two, you won your first World Series, but you've had Game 7 in the World Series for you was not ideal.

Gene

Lockett and Luis Gonzalez.

That was also another World Series that a visiting club did not win a game.

But how long can you ask, you know, Freddie and Mookie to play at the level that they've played out over the years? And like I said, a little flare over the first baseman's head and you lose a series.

I was thinking of Mariano Rivera just jams Luis Gonzalez.

But the infield's in.

Two outs in the bottom of the ninth and – Luis Gonzalez is a hero for fisting a ball 120 feet.

Exactly.

And I couldn't have been happier.

Under the auspicious protection of John III, King of Portugal, he sent St. Francis Xavier into the East Indies, where he gained a new world to the faith of Christ.

He sent John Nugnez and Luis González into the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco to instruct and assist the Christian slaves, in 1547, for others to Congo in Africa, in 1555, thirteen into Abyssinia, among whom John Nugnez was nominated by Pope Julius III, Patriarch of Ethiopia, and two others, bishops, lastly, others into the Portuguese settlements in South America.

Pope Paul III.

commissioned the Fathers James Lainez and Alphonsus Salmeron to assist, in quality of his theologians, at the Council of Trent.

Nevertheless, he was himself about an hour in saying Mass, to excuse which he alleged the plea of necessity, being often obliged to make pauses through an irresistible tenderness of devotion.

After Mass he spent two hours in private prayer, during which time no one was admitted to speak to him except on some pressing necessity.

Father Luis González, who for some time governed the college under him, says, As often as I went to him at that time, which necessity frequently obliged me to do, I always saw his face shining with an air so bright and heavenly, that, quite forgetting myself, I stood astonished in contemplating him.

Nor was his countenance like that of many devout men in whom I have admired a wonderful serenity at their prayers, but it breathed something quite unusual, and, as it were, divine.

And then Torrey, and you may know more about this than me, though, because I don't watch the Yankees as closely as you do.

I'm sure Torrey explained it, but it was inexplicable to me that Torrey played the infield in on that Luis Gonzalez at-bat, and he blooped it right over Jeter's head, right?

The reason he did that is because you don't really square up Mariano Rivera.

So if Gonzalez hits a weak ground ball to shortstop, you're not getting the out at home.

The second batter earned a walk to first after seven pitches.

That brought one of Arizona's most dangerous hitters, Luis Gonzalez, to the plate.

Clemens and Gonzalez battled to a full count of three balls and two strikes.

As the next pitch came home, the new runner on first took off for second base.

The building shook.

And then, in game seven, Luis Gonzalez hit a walk-off single off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the ninth.

the greatest closer of his generation, the biggest moment of the year.

And the ball, it, it, it just floated out into the grass.