Alou slammed his glove down in frustration and shouted at several fans.

In, Alou again ended up on the disabled list at the start of the season, and once healthy, he hit. 275 and 15 home runs.

Alou openly admitted later in interviews that while he was frustrated at the moment, he could not have made the catch anyway.

The Associated Press writers, at the end of the aborted season, chose to name " unofficial " champions when naming their Managers of the Year as Felipe Alou ( Expos ) and Buck Showalter ( Yankees ), who were leading when the season abruptly ended.

He was at shortstop whenfan touched a foul ball that left fielder Moisés Alou might have caught.

Besides Wakefield and Youkilis, other Major League Baseball players that performed at Lake Olmstead Stadium include Moisés Alou, Emmanuel Burriss, Carlos García, John Grabow, Brian Horwitz, Jason Kendall, Orlando Merced, Hanley Ramírez, Pablo Sandoval, Eugenio Vélez, Brian Wilson ( baseball ) and Tony Womack.

He made his debut at the end of, and his first game on September 10 was notable in that all three Alou brothers batted in the same inning ( they were retired in order ).

Jesus Alou was awarded with the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame Pioneer Award at a pre-game ceremony at Minute Maid Park, Houston Texas on 9 / 23 / 08.

On June 23,, the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame inducted Matty Alou into their Hall of Fame during an on-field, pre-game ceremony at AT & T Park before a game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees.

He was the home plate umpire on September 10, 1963, when brothers Jesus, Matty and Felipe Alou batted consecutively for the San Francisco Giants, and also on June 3, 1987, when the Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs hit a combined three grand slams at Wrigley Field.

From 1961 to 1964, the El Paso Ball club had been affiliated with the San Francisco Giants, their most notable player coming through the system at the time being Jesús Alou of the famous baseball family.

It was also reported that Mercker and left fielder Moisés Alou shouted at Stone on a team charter plane to a road game in 2004, and that Alou tried to have Stone and Caray banned from the team charter flights.

Hoffman preserved a 6 – 5 win against the Houston Astros by striking out Moises Alou to end that game and converted his 41st consecutive save opportunity, tying an MLB record at the time.

His most famous defensive play came at the end of the 1962 World Series, mentioned below, when Richardson made a clutch catch of a Willie McCovey line drive that prevented Willie Mays and Matty Alou from scoring the runs that would have beaten the Yankees and given the Series to the San Francisco Giants.

Castillo was a central figure in the NLCS Game 6 comeback by the Marlins against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field after a foul ball that he hit was knocked away from the Cubs ' Moisés Alou by fan Steve Bartman.

Interestly enough, the Cards dealt Alou to the Oakland Athletics three weeks later, and spent the rest of the season with something of a revolving door at first base.

Because of his status as a five-tool player and his excellent career numbers, Alou is considered by many to be one of the best outfielders of the 1990s and 2000s.

Alou is one of the few baseball players who batted without the use of batting gloves.

In Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins that year, Alou was involved in the Steve Bartman incident, in which a Cubs fan named Steve Bartman deflected a foul ball landing one row into the stands, preventing Alou, who reached into the stands, from attempting to catch the ball for an out that could have been the second out of the 8th Inning.

While he was primarily an outfielder, Alou also appeared in one game in 1965 as a pitcher, pitching two scoreless innings.

In summer 2006, Giants manager Felipe Alou criticized Sabean's strategy of signing older players when he told the media that " I don't believe one manager enjoys having players die in their hands " in reference to several older players that were designated for assignment.

After the 1963 season, Hendley was traded to the San Francisco Giants in a six-player deal ; one of the three players the Braves received was Felipe Alou.

In April 2008, Moisés Alou was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, " You know what the funny thing is?

Alou reacted angrily toward the stands, and after the game stated that he would have caught the ball.

On October 2, 2006, the day after the end of the regular season, the Giants announced that they would not renew the contract of manager Felipe Alou, but did extend him an offer to remain with the club in an advisory role to the general manager and to baseball operations.

If Alou had caught the ball, it would have been the second out in the inning, and the Cubs would have been just four outs away from winning the National League pennant.

Alou suffered a severe ankle injury in that would rob him of his speed and force him to become strictly a corner outfielder.

Several teams tried to lure Alou out of retirement, including the Boston Red Sox, but he would not budge.

With Willie Mays on second base and Matty Alou on third, any base hit would likely have won the championship for the Giants.

That game — and thus the Series — ended with Yankee second baseman Bobby Richardson catching Willie McCovey's line drive with Willie Mays on second and Matty Alou on third ; had the ball been hit a foot or so to either side, Richardson could not have caught it and San Francisco would have scored two runs and won the Series.

Alou would become the leader in Expos games managed, while guiding the team to winning records, including 1994, when the Expos, led by a talented group of players including Larry Walker, Moisés Alou, Marquis Grissom and Pedro Martínez, had the best record in the major leagues until the 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike forced the cancellation of the remainder of the season.

( The Giants lost the Series by inches: Yankee second baseman Bobby Richardson caught Willie McCovey's line drive with Willie Mays on second and Matty Alou on third ; a foot or two to either side and both runners would have scored and the Giants would have won the Series.

" He added, " I had my eyes glued on the approaching ball the entire time and was so caught up in the moment that I did not even see Moisés Alou much less that he may have had a play.

Alou is married to Austria Alou ; they have three sons: Percio, Kirby and Moisés Jr.

In his first full year of Major League action in, Alou failed to live up to expectations, hitting only. 274 with little power, but he did have a great day on July 10 when he went 6 – 6 with five singles and a home run.

Felipe López singled, and Nathan was able to get Miguel Cabrera and Luis Castillo out, but not before Alou scored.

The Cubs, in particular Alou and Prior, argued for interference, but umpire Mike Everitt ruled there was no fan interference because the ball had broken the plane of the wall separating the field of play from the stands and entered the stands.

At the age of 18, Alou was more interested in playing basketball during his youth, and did not play organized baseball until he attended Cañada College in Redwood City, California.

Alou reacted with visible frustration and anger after being unable to catch the ball, although there was no illegal interference on the play.

Newly hired Marlins manager Jim Leyland shifted Conine back to first base in, as the club had acquired free agent Moises Alou to play left field.

" However, Alou later disputed that story.

Alou was traded to the Braves before the 1964 season with Ed Bailey, Billy Hoeft, and a player to be named later ( Ernie Bowman ) for Del Crandall, Bob Hendley and Bob Shaw.

In the later game Al Oliver hit the last home run in the park, and Matty Alou drove in two runs as the Pirates closed the 62-year old stadium with a 4 – 1 victory.

Among his childhood playmates were the Alou brothers, Felipe, Jesús, and Matty, who all later played with Marichal on the San Francisco Giants.

Alou later served as a scout for the Expos, then moved to the Florida Marlins as the club's director of Dominican operations.

Valentín agreed to switch his uniform number from 18 to 22 for the newly-signed Moisés Alou a few days later.

Just over a year later, on August 8, 1990, Smith was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Scott Ruskin, Willie Greene and Moisés Alou.