May 6th Game Recap

What looked like a loss for the Braves Sunday afternoon trailing 1-4 in the bottom of the 7th, they came back and scored 5 to win the game 6-4. Kyle Davies pitched a solid game through 6 innings, then allowed 2 more runs before being pulled. There were several questionable calls made by the umpires behind the plate and third base. Salty tagged Andy Laroche out at home and he was called safe. Chipper Jones was called out on a check swing which resulted in the ejection of Chipper and Cox.

-While serving a as a pinch-hitter during the decisive five-run seventh that the Braves produced, Jones objected to the fact that third-base umpire Bob Davidson felt he hadn't checked his swing on a two-strike pitch from Chin-hui Tsao.

The strikeout immediately brought Braves manager Bobby Cox out of the dugout, leading to the 128th ejection of his career. That fired up the emotions of Jones, who had some choice words before and after being ejected by Davidson.

"Looking at it in slow, slow, slow motion, it could have gone either way," Jones said. "But that's not even what made me mad. The fact of the matter is he looked over at our dugout -- when Bobby stepped out, he [leaned toward our dugout], waited on Bobby to open his mouth, couldn't even tell what was said, and he threw him out. That's what upset me."

- From ajc.com

"Bob Davidson feels like all these thousands of people who come to the park come to see him," Jones said. "That's the way he always has been. It's a joke among us players."

"But the fact of the matter is we overcame bad officiating by the third base umpire and the home plate umpire (Sam Holbrook) and we still won. So I'm proud of our guys."

Chipper will probably be fined for his comments on the umpires.

-Jarrod Saltalamacchia played his 2nd game this season and further proved why the Braves should hang on to him by going 2-4 with an rbi. He also showed off his good arm by throwing out Juan Pierre at 1st base.

"Salty is going to be a player," Jones said. "I don't know where he's going to play. But he's going to be a player. We have a nice luxury with two stud catchers. So we're going to have to find a spot for him, because his time is coming. He's ready. I think he's been ready, to be honest with you."

It almost seems that Salty would be a better option at catcher, and then moving McCann to 1st base. Whatever the case, both players should be on this team in the future.

Tomorrow the Braves start off a four game series against the San Diego Padres. Chuck James will face Chris Young.