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Career Notes 1997 Belted three home runs (all solo shots) -- setting a personal best and tying a club record -- May 19 against Cincinnati. 1996 Had a career-high five hits on May 23 vs. Philadelphia including a two-run HR in the bottom of the eighth inning to put the Padres ahead to stay 6-5 ... Won a second consecutive Gold Glove award in the outfield and placed 10th in the National League MVP balloting ... Established career bests in 10 offensive categories, including average, doubles, home runs and RBI ... Set San Diego club records in runs, total bases, extra-base hits and doubles ... 18 of his 30 home runs either tied the score or put the Padres ahead ... Homered in three consecutive at-bats June 29-30 at San Francisco's 3-Com Park ... Collected five hits in five at-bats on May 23 at Philadelphia ... Earned National League player of the week honors for the week of July 1-7, hitting .483 with two home runs and six RBI ... Player of the week honors came in the midst of a career-best 21-game hitting streak from June 20-July 14. 1995 Finley finished the campaign with career-best .297 batting average and 104 runs scored (3rd in the National League), tying the best mark by a Padre since Bip Roberts' 104 runs in 1990 ... Had eight three-baggers on the season (one off the NL lead and tied for third) ... Tied fir the fourth best mark in the league with 167 safeties ... Stole career-high four bases August 12 vs. St. Louis (the most by a Padre since September 20, 1986 when Tony Gwynn stole five bases at Houston) and seven of 36 stole bases on the season (19.4%) came against the Cards ... Did not go more than two consecutive games without a hit after June 25 and was held hitless two games in a row only three time during the span ... Had 36 steals, the most since a career-high 44 in '92, tying him for fourth in NL and most by a Padre since Roberts' 46 thefts in '90. 1994 Started 56 of first 59 games before being hit by a pitch and breaking his hand June 8 in Montreal ... Hit .323 with seven homers and 23 RBI for April ....308 is a career-high up until this point ... Strong start in April was followed by a miserable May and beginning of June that saw him hit .207 for the months ... 11 homers set a new career mark ... Finished tied for fifth in the NL with nine outfield assists ... Connected off Pittsburgh's Paul Wagner for his first career grand slam on July 17 ... Hit 10 of 11 homers off right-handed pitching ... Traded by the Houston Astros with Ken Caminiti, Andujar Cedeno, Robert Petagine, Brian Williams and a player to be named later to the San Diego Padres for Phil Plantier, Derek Bell, Pedro Martinez, Doug Brocail, Craig Shipley and Ricky Gutierrez on Dec. 28, 1994. 1993 Suffered through a viral nerve infection in his neck and a wrist injury that limited his appearances and effectiveness through mid-May ... Was hitting .198 (16-81) May 18, but improved to a .278 (129-464) mark the rest of the season ... Batted .313 (31-99) in July and .284 (83-292) in the 74 games after the All-Star break ... Led the NL with 13 triples despite not hitting his first until the 41st game of the season ... Finished the year eighth on Houston's all-time list with 36 triples (a total accumulated in only three seasons) ... Ranked seventh in the league with 12 outfield assists. 1992 Solidified his status as an outstanding offensive outfielder, finishing seventh in the league in hits (177), second in triples (13) and third in stolen bases (44) ... Was the league's eighth-toughest strikeout, with a ratio of 10.9 plate appearances per whiff ... Shone defensively as well, ranking sixth among league outfielders with a .993 fielding percentage and tying Pete Incaviglia for the club lead with eight outfield assists ... Joined teammates Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio as the only NL players to appear in all 162 games, a feat matched in the AL by only Cal Ripken, Jr. ... His career-high .292 average ranked second on the team ... Put together two 11-game hitting streaks (a career-best figure) ... Also established career highs in at-bats, hits, doubles, triples, RBI, walks and steals ... Hit .356 (42-118) in Sept./Oct., scoring in 24 of 31 games and hitting safely in 21 of Houston's last 24 contests. 1991 His first season in the NL was clearly the finest of his career to that point ... Ranked third in the league in triples (10), tied for sixth (with Will Clark and Ryne Sandberg) in hits (170) and was ninth in steals (34) ... Was caught stealing 18 times, fifth-most in the league ... Tied for third in the league with 13 outfield assists ... Led Houston in seven offensive categories ... Began slowly, compiling a .183 average in 21 games through May 3 ... A three-hit game at Pittsburgh May 4 began a span in which he hit safely in 47 of 59 games to raise his average to .288 heading into the All-Star break ... Went 31-for-82 (.378) leading off games, collecting 20 singles, six doubles, two triples and three homers ... Hit all eight of his homers away from the Astrodome. 1990 Led Baltimore with 22 steals ... Started and ended the season in slumps ... Hit .236 through June 28 before raising his average to .272 Sept. 12 and finishing with a .175 stretch over his final 19 games ... Batted .287 (70-244) in the leadoff position ... Had three four-hit games, two of them against California. 1989 Made the team out of spring training after being invited as a non-roster player ... Made his major league debut as a starting outfielder Opening Day against Boston ... His first big league fielding chance was exciting, as he made a diving catch of a third-inning Nick Esasky line drive while crashing into the right-centerfield wall ... Sprained his right shoulder on the play and was out of the lineup until April 22 ... Collected his first major league hit April 22, a single off Minnesota's Fred Toliver ... Connected for his first big league home run April 25 off California's Willie Fraser and victimized New York's Chuck Cary for his first grand slam June 5 at Yankee Stadium ... Tied a Baltimore record with three steals at Texas (first game) Sept. 7 ... Had the fourth-best stolen base success rate in the AL at 85 percent (17-20).
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