Luis Gómez (baseball)

Luis Gómez
Shortstop
Born: August 19, 1951 (1951-08-19) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 28, 1974 for the Minnesota Twins
Last MLB appearance
October 4, 1981 for the Atlanta Braves
Career statistics
Batting average	.210
Home runs	0
Runs batted in	90
Teams
Minnesota Twins (1974–77) Toronto Blue Jays (1978–79) Atlanta Braves (1980–81)

Luis Gómez Sánchez is a former professional baseball player who played during the 1970s and 1980s. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1951 and raised in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA, he attended and graduated from Nightingale Jr. High, then attended Belmont High School and UCLA.

The 5'9" Gómez played on the baseball team for three years ('71-'73) at shortstop. He is listed as having a batting average of .272, 2 HR, and 34 RBI in college. During his senior year, his batting average was .301 in 52 games and 186 at bats.

He started his major league baseball career with the Minnesota Twins in 1974, playing with them until 1977, when he moved to the Toronto Blue Jays, for which he played two seasons before being traded to the Atlanta Braves, playing his two remaining seasons there and retiring in 1982. He set an Atlanta record in 1980 with a .968 fielding percentage at shortstop and strung together 42 consecutive errorless games. He played shortstop, second base, and third base in 609 major league games. In his eight years, he had a .210 batting average with 1251 at bats. No non-pitcher since Bill Bergan retired in 1911 has had as many plate appearances with an OPS no better than .500, which is what his was. Gómez appeared in 609 major league games, the most among players who never hit a home run. (He also has the distinction of *never* having hit a home run as a professional baseball player, whether in the majors, the minors or even in the Senior Baseball League.)

Gómez joined the LDS Church as a result of his association with Dale Murphy and Alan Ashby.

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube