PHOENIX -- Some of you may remember Luis Gonzalez.

You know, the guy who was chasing history alongside Barry Bonds for half this season. The guy putting up numbers as if his initials stood for Lou Gehrig circa 1927, not Luis Gonzalez circa 2001. The guy with an MVP season if Bonds hadn't gone so crazy.

Yeah, him. The power-hitting left fielder who smacked 57 home runs this year. Doesn't say much. Knocked in 142 runs in case you were asking. Just goes out and smokes balls all around Bank One Ballpark as if it were his own personal Little League field.

	Luis Gonzalez connects for a two-run homer off Mike Mussina in the third inning.

Gonzo had been pretty quiet this postseason, hitting just .237 in 37 playoff at-bats, nearly 100 points below his .324 season average. He had hit two home runs, but one of those was a meaningless three-run homer in the ninth inning of the Game 4 blowout win over Atlanta in the National League Championship Series.

In the first inning against Mike Mussina, he struck out swinging. In the bottom of third he stepped into the box with the game tied 1-1, one out and Tony Womack on second base. Womack had reached when Mussina drilled him in the belt buckle -- when was the last time you saw that? -- on an 0-2 pitch. After Craig Counsell's sacrifice, Gonzalez came to the plate.

He fouled off the first pitch, straight back into the net behind home plate. He fouled off the second pitch, another fastball. Like his first at-bat, Mussina had him in an 0-2 hole. The next pitch was ball one, a sinker low.

On the next pitch, catcher Jorge Posada set up outside, trying to keep away from Gonzalez's power -- the inside pitch that he loves to turn on. Only seven of his 57 home runs went to left of center field. The majority of his blasts went to right field.

"On that home-run pitch, (Posada) was set up away because I went back and looked at the tape," Gonzalez said. "I was curious to see how they were going to pitch in this series and (Mussina) just missed location. That ball just ran back and down in on me and I was able to drop the bat."

But Mussina, who battled his location throughout his three innings, didn't deliver on the outside corner. His fastball was down the middle, maybe slightly inside and a little above the knees -- also known as Luis Gonzalez's money zone.

Gonzo turned on it. It clearly had the distance. It stayed fair. It measured 406 feet of delirium for the record crowd at Bank One Ballpark.

Diamondbacks 3, Yankees 1.