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 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Steve Finley has gone from one pressure cooker into another. The 17-year veteran, who jumped from one West Division championship team to another as a free agent last December, drove in his first two runs for the Los Angeles Angels with a pair of RBI singles and Bengie Molina hit a three-run homer to help beat the Texas Rangers 7-6 on Thursday night.
"I've seen this division race from afar," said Finley, whose game-winning grand slam on the next-to-last day of last season clinched the division title for the Los Angeles Dodgers. "I know the last few years you look at the standings, and somebody else is on top and the other teams are one or two games behind. These were three great games, and the fans got their money's worth."
Finley, a two-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove center fielder, drove home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth after Angels reliever Scot Shields surrendered the tying run in the top half on an RBI single by Michael Young.
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