"It was 2014, that was before Opening Day, so you get there one day before and I saw him," Gonzalez said. "I saw him and he was telling me he was going to strike me out three times on Opening Day, so I said, 'OK, let's go to battle.'"
Gonzalez hit hard line drives his first two at-bats -- one for a single, the other caught by Adeiny Hechavarria.
"My third at-bat, I hit a homer to dead-center," Gonzalez said. "I kind of stared at it, stayed at the plate.