ULM Great Inducted to Hall of Fame
LaMar Gafford
Issue date: 9/2/09 Section: Sports
Former University of Louisiana at Monroe pitcher Chuck Finley was inducted to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's Hall of Fame on Aug. 27 before the Angels played against the Oakland Athletics, commemorating his 14-year tenure with the team that started his professional.
The Monroe native played for ULM (then Northeast Louisiana University) from 1984 to 1985. After leading the team in strikeouts in 1985, Finley was drafted by the Angels with the fourth pick in the secondary phase of the Major League Baseball amateur draft.
With the Angels, Finley recorded 165 wins and 2151 strikeouts in 2675 innings pitched and 379 games started from 1986 to 1999, setting team records in wins, innings and starts. Arguably his best season was 1990 as he finished seventh in voting for the American League Cy Young Award, given to the best pitchers in each league, after going 18-9 with a 2.40 earned run average and 177 strikeouts in 236 innings pitched. Finley was also the team's Opening Day starter four times in 1991, 1995, 1996 and 1998 and was selected to the MLB All-Star game four times in 1989, 1990, 1995 and 1996.
Finley then moved on to the Cleveland Indians in 2000, where he was selected to the All-Star game,and put up decent numbers with a 16-11 record, 4.17 ERA and 189 strikeouts. However, he would go only 12-18 in the next one-and-a-half years with Cleveland and was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 2002 to help out their postseason push. He would fare much better in the National League while going 7-4 with a 3.80 ERA and taking the Cardinals all the way to the National League Championship Series against the San Francisco Giants, but St. Louis lost in five games, and Finley retire never getting the World Series title.
For his career, Finley recorded a 200-173 record and 2610 strikeouts in 3197 1/3 innings, with 63 complete games and 15 shutouts. He also holds the dubious honor of striking out four batters and is the only MLB pitcher to accomplish that feat more than once, by actually doing it three times in the span of a year.
The Monroe native played for ULM (then Northeast Louisiana University) from 1984 to 1985. After leading the team in strikeouts in 1985, Finley was drafted by the Angels with the fourth pick in the secondary phase of the Major League Baseball amateur draft.
With the Angels, Finley recorded 165 wins and 2151 strikeouts in 2675 innings pitched and 379 games started from 1986 to 1999, setting team records in wins, innings and starts. Arguably his best season was 1990 as he finished seventh in voting for the American League Cy Young Award, given to the best pitchers in each league, after going 18-9 with a 2.40 earned run average and 177 strikeouts in 236 innings pitched. Finley was also the team's Opening Day starter four times in 1991, 1995, 1996 and 1998 and was selected to the MLB All-Star game four times in 1989, 1990, 1995 and 1996.
Finley then moved on to the Cleveland Indians in 2000, where he was selected to the All-Star game,and put up decent numbers with a 16-11 record, 4.17 ERA and 189 strikeouts. However, he would go only 12-18 in the next one-and-a-half years with Cleveland and was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 2002 to help out their postseason push. He would fare much better in the National League while going 7-4 with a 3.80 ERA and taking the Cardinals all the way to the National League Championship Series against the San Francisco Giants, but St. Louis lost in five games, and Finley retire never getting the World Series title.
For his career, Finley recorded a 200-173 record and 2610 strikeouts in 3197 1/3 innings, with 63 complete games and 15 shutouts. He also holds the dubious honor of striking out four batters and is the only MLB pitcher to accomplish that feat more than once, by actually doing it three times in the span of a year.
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"For his career, Finley recorded a 200-173 record and 2610 strikeouts in 3197 1/3 innings, with 63 complete games and 15 shutouts. He also holds the dubious honor of striking out four batters and is the only MLB pitcher to accomplish that feat more than once, by actually doing it three times in the span of a year. (Continued…)
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