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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.
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Alou reacted angrily toward the stands, and after the game stated that he would have caught the ball.
Alou at one point recanted, saying he would not have been able to make the play, but later said this was just an attempt to make Bartman feel better and believing the whole incident should be forgotten.
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.
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.
( 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.
Alou and become
Bochy agreed to a four-year contract to replace Felipe Alou and become the Giants ' new skipper on October 27, 2006.
Alou and Expos
Because of the season-ending 1994-95 MLBPA strike where the season was abandoned without official league champions, the game featured the " unofficial " league champions, the managers of the clubs leading their respective leagues ' won-loss records, Buck Showalter of the New York Yankees and Felipe Alou of the Montreal Expos for the All-Star Game.
After the 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike cut the season short and cancelled the post-season, the BBWAA writers named the managers of the Yankees ( Buck Showalter ) and Montréal Expos ( Felipe Alou ), who led the leagues in winning percentage, Managers of the Year.
The Expos averaged 72 victories over the next six seasons ( their best seasons after 1994 were an 88 win season in 1996 and an 83 win season in 2002 ) and Alou was fired in 2001.
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.
During his 17-year career spent with the Giants, Milwaukee & Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos, and Milwaukee Brewers, Alou played all three outfield positions regularly ( 736 games in right field, 483 in center, 433 in left ), and led the National League in hits twice and runs once.
After the end of his playing career, Alou joined the Montreal Expos organization in 1976, becoming a batting coach and a minor league manager.
On May 22, 1992, Alou was promoted from the Expos bench coach to field manager, becoming the first Dominican-born manager in MLB history.
At the recommendation of team manager Felipe Alou, he was signed by the Expos in 1979.
In May 1992, Felipe Alou, a member of the Expos organization since 1976, was promoted to field manager, becoming the first Dominican-born manager in MLB history.
Alou was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 1968 MLB expansion draft and then was dealt to Houston.
Alou later served as a scout for the Expos, then moved to the Florida Marlins as the club's director of Dominican operations.
On January 22,, the Expos traded Clendenon and Jesus Alou to the Houston Astros for Rusty Staub.
Alou and games
In 1, 942 career games, Alou had a batting average of. 303 with 2, 134 hits, 421 doubles, 332 home runs, and 1, 287 runs batted in.
Brooks co-held the Mets record for the longest hitting streak with 24 games, tied with Mike Piazza until broken by Moisés Alou in 2007 with a 30-game hitting streak.
Alou and while
Alou was also known for pranking teammates while they were sleeping in the locker room.
In his first season with the team, Alou hit a career-high 38 home runs and drove in 124 runs while leading the Astros to a franchise record 102 wins.
In the season, Alou batted over. 300 for most of the season while driving in runs as he used to, before a late season slump dropped his season batting average to. 280, with 22 home runs and 91 RBIs.
Alou openly admitted later in interviews that while he was frustrated at the moment, he could not have made the catch anyway.
In, Alou set new career highs in home runs ( 39 ) and doubles ( 36 ), while driving in 106 runs.
In Game 6 of the NLCS, the Marlins were five outs away from being eliminated when Cubs fan, Steve Bartman, prevented a foul ball from being an out by extending his arms over Moises Alou while Alou attempted to field the pop-up.
Alou and team
A Giants highlight came in 1963 when Jesús Alou joined the team, and along with Felipe and Matty formed the first all-brother outfield in Major League history.
Prior to the season, Alou signed as a free agent with the Florida Marlins, where he led the team with 23 home runs and 115 RBIs.
Alou led the team by hitting. 321 with three home runs and nine RBI in the World Series ( although, pitcher Liván Hernández, by virtue of his wins in Games 1 and 5 was named the Series Most Valuable Player instead ).
Alou went on to lead the team in average in its two series against the Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins.
Eventually, Alou became the most successful manager in team history.
Prior to the 2003 season, Alou was named manager of the Giants, the team where he began his professional baseball career, replacing Dusty Baker who had left to manage the Chicago Cubs.
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.
During the 2004 season, Mercker reportedly called the broadcast booth to complain about commentary by Steve Stone and, along with Moisés Alou, confronted Stone on a team flight.
Alou and winning
After two consecutive close second place finishes, the Giants, under new manager Felipe Alou, recorded 100 victories for the seventh time in franchise history and the third time in San Francisco, winning their division for the third time in seven seasons.
The following night, Hoffman's streak ended on an Alou home run, though the Padres ended up winning the game.
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