Born in Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, the 5’9″ Gomez played freshman basketball at UCLA with Bill Walton. Gomez was a reserve in Minnesota before becoming Toronto’s shortstop for 1978. He set an Atlanta record in 1980 with a .968 fielding percentage at shortstop and strung together 42 consecutive errorless games. But, batting .191, he lost his job to Rafael Ramirez.