finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1981 right guadalajara , jalisco , mexico 1974 october 4 .210 0 90 shortstop atlanta braves batting average home runs runs batted in april 28 19 august 1951 luis gómez -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 minnesota twins luis gómez right
luis gómez -lrb- baseball -rrb-

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 -lrb- ' 71 - ' 73 -rrb- 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 .
gomez was known for his exceptionally slick fielding , but also for his notably weak hitting .
among his hitting ` achievements ' : - no non-pitcher since bill bergen retired in 1911 has had as many plate appearances as gomez with an ops of .500 or less .
-lrb- gomez 's lifetime ops is exactly .500 . -rrb-
- in 1975 , he played in 89 games without collecting a single extra-base hit , breaking a record held since 1916 by mike mcnally and which still stands .
- gómez appeared in 609 major league games , the most among non-pitchers who never hit a home run .
- he also has the distinction of never having hit a home run as a professional baseball player at * any * level , 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 garth iorg , alan ashby , and dale murphy .
