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Moisés Alou

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b. July 3, 1966 · Montreal Expos 1990, 1992–1996, Pittsburgh Pirates 1990, Florida Marlins 1997, Houston Astros 1998, 2000–2001, Chicago Cubs 2002–2004, San Francisco Giants 2005–2006, New York Mets 2007–2008

Seventeen seasons gave him 2,134 hits, 332 home runs, 1,287 runs batted in and a .303 average, with six All-Star selections and two Silver Sluggers. He is the son of Felipe Alou, who managed him in Montreal, and the nephew of Matty and Jesús, which makes four Alous in the major-league record.

In the eighth inning of the sixth game of the 2003 National League Championship Series a foul ball came down the left-field line and a Chicago spectator reached for it at the same moment he did. The Cubs were five outs from a pennant they did not win, and the clip has been shown more than any single play of the decade. He said afterward he would have caught it, and later said he would not have.

He won the World Series with Florida in 1997 and drove in 115 runs that year. He played until he was forty-one, missing large parts of several seasons to injury, and the .303 is the figure worth keeping. The writers gave him six votes of 571 in 2014.

Honors

AwardTimesYears
All-Star selection 6 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005
Player of the Week 4 1993, 1994, 1998, 2002
Silver Slugger 2 1994, 1998
The Sporting News All-Star 2 1994, 1998
Babe Ruth Award 1 1997

Batting, season by season

YearTeam GABR H2B3B HRRBIBB SOSBAVG
1990 MON/PIT 162044 010 0030 .200
1992 MON 1153415396 2829 56254616 .282
1993 MON 13648270138 29618 85385317 .286
1994 MON 10742281143 31522 7842637 .339
1995 MON 933444894 22014 5829564 .273
1996 MON 14354087152 28221 9649839 .281
1997 FLA 15053888157 29523 11570859 .292
1998 HOU 159584104182 34538 124848711 .312
2000 HOU 12645482161 28230 11452453 .355
2001 HOU 13651379170 31127 10857575 .331
2002 CHC 13248450133 23115 6147618 .275
2003 CHC 15156583158 35122 9163673 .280
2004 CHC 155601106176 36339 10668803 .293
2005 SFG 12342767137 21319 6356435 .321
2006 SFG 9834552104 25122 7428312 .301
2007 NYM 8732851112 19113 4927303 .341
2008 NYM 1549417 200 9241 .347
Career 1942703711092134 42139332 1287737894106 .303

On this day & linked events

1966

Born July 3, 1966

Atlanta, GA, USA

1990

Major-league debut: Moisés Alou

Moisés Alou made a major-league debut on July 26, 1990.

2003

Moisés Alou's Three-Home-Run Game, 2003

Moisés Alou hit three home runs for the Chicago Cubs against the St. Louis Cardinals on July 4, 2003.

2008

Final major-league game: Moisés Alou

Moisés Alou played a final major-league game on June 10, 2008.

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