Chipper Jones News

Remember, this guy was once the "missing piece" himself. Now he's just missing. Frank Wren was the most aggressive general manager in baseball over the winter.

The Braves put struggling second baseman Kelly Johnson on the disabled list Friday with tendinitis in his right wrist and called up Brooks Conrad from Class AAA Gwinnett.

Chipper Jones is out of the Braves' lineup for tonight's game against the Cubs after straining his right groin during the series-opening loss Monday.

Ninety-eight pitches into his afternoon, Scott Olsen stood on the pitcher's mound, watching everybody converge on him like some claw closing its fist. The infielders joined by his side, the full sayonara conference, and there came Washington Nationals Manager Manny Acta, out of the dugout, past the first base line, ready to pluck the ball from his pitcher's hand and pass it along to somebody else.

'I thought I was done,' Olsen said.

Viewed from above, the ensuing meeting took Olsen's toughness quotient to a new level and provided the galvanizing moment in Washington's 5-3 victory against the Atlanta Braves. The claw of humanity came in for the swipe, and Olsen was still there, defiant, dead-set on finishing his own game. Acta walked back to the dugout. The pitcher, still on the mound, had his Maximus moment. Nationals Park roared. Like that, Olsen -- the stepbrother in Washington's homegrown rotation -- had won the crowd.

The Nationals' post-game fireworks display exploded a couple of pitches prematurely Sunday, drawing a look into the Nationals dugout from Chipper Jones.

Selections to the midsummer classic have now become old hat for Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCann.

Adam Dunn hit his 300th career home run and drove in the go-ahead run with an RBI single during a four-run eighth, as Washington topped Atlanta, 5-3, halting the Braves' season-high win streak at five games.

Brooks Conrad's first home run of his career was a pinch-hit, three-run shot to help the Atlanta Braves take a 9-8 win over the Washington Nationals in the opener of a three-game set.

Yet, because he's a second baseman with a little pop and a little speed, Johnson always seems to be on someone's fantasy team.

Martin Prado was at it again, scoring three runs and driving in two more runs after a four-RBI evening on Tuesday, as Atlanta poured it on Philadelphia, 11-1, at Turner Field.

In all three of their interleague road series this season, the Red Sox [ team stats ] won the first two games, but when it came time to go for the sweep, couldn't apply the knockout blow.

Rookie Tommy Hanson threw six scoreless innings despite a bout with the flu, and homers by Chipper Jones and Garret Anderson carried the Atlanta Braves past Boston 2-1 on Sunday, preventing a Red Sox sweep.

Sun June 28, 2009 4:56am EDT - In his first Interleague start of the season, Javier Vazquez picked up the loss.

The Atlanta Braves presently have seven players in the Hall of Fame. They are: Hank Aaron OF 1966-74 Eddie Mathews 3B 1966 Orlando Cepeda 1B 1969-72 Phil Niekro RHP 1966-1983, ... by Silver Fox 8 reads History The Atlanta Braves presently have seven players in the Hall of Fame.

It has been about eight months since Chipper Jones paid for two orange seats from the lower level of Shea Stadium, his pieces of memorabilia from one of his favorite ballparks.

There was a B on John Smoltz 's cap, not an A. Smoltz had Mike Lowell nearby at third base instead of Chipper Jones .

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter forces out Atlanta Bravesa TM Chipper Jones, left, while turning a double play in the sixth inning on Thursday in Atlanta.

Yankees RH Joba Chamberlain vs. Braves RH Kenshin Kawakami . Chamberlain is 2-1 with a 3.98 ERA in his past eight starts, and the Yankees scored one or no runs while he was in four of those games.

It might not seem like it, but there was a time when Chipper Jones didn't have a perfect approach at the plate.

Bobby Cox played for the Yankees and got his start as a manager in their organization, but the venerable Braves manager laughed when asked if he had any loyalty to the pinstripes when facing his old team.