Thursday, 22 March 2012

Top 10 Chipper Jones career points



Braves third baseman Chipper Jones declared Thursday that the 2012 season will be his end. Here is an overview of some of the best moments in 18 seasons with the Braves.


1- Smashing entrance album. Rookie to hit two home runs in his first match in the finals, 1 set of national leagues in 1995, against the Colorado Rockies, including the winner in the ninth round to win the Braves series 5-4. The decisive battle came with two outs off Curtis Leskanic. I think I realized what he was doing, "said Jones after the match."It was as if I was working with my legs, two meters from the ground. He is also the judgement of bankruptcy, Andres Bile raga pay round diving.

2- Breakthrough against Wagner. Hitting a Homer in three races 7-4 in 2001, winning 1 game against Houston. Billy Wagner, smooth (with alternating six) Jones was in eight games for the previous record was a Homer. "I had the dough until bubbles in the field with confidence as I am, of course," said Jones.

3- Shea Stadium spectacular. Vaughn 1999 NL MVP award and the bus is four and seven points in the series sweep against the Mets in New York in September. How difficult it was Jones on the dishes? Accused the country of origin must be informed, even though two home runs came with the bases empty. "You can't go wrong with a sense of perspective," said Jones. "The other way to explain it."

4. All-Star blast. 3 for 3 to hit a home run in the all-star game at Turner field in 2000. Jones, Bobby Cox-Manager results-NL lost 1-1 in the third round. 13-the actor has an all-star game, where he was in his home park. "It was great," he said. "I think this is the dream of every little boy.

5- Landmark in Florida. In a succession in Florida in June 2008, Jones had two hits in one game to exceed Eddie Mathews for second on the franchise’s all-time hit list on June 2. Three days later, with 400 year anniversary. He was 43 players in the Club 400-Homere, in style with a four-hit performance, his average League-leading super free secure parking at that time raised 418.

6- The three types. Take three consecutive at bats against the United States on 14. August 2006 year set of only three Homer of his career. This is 4-5 with five RBIS efficiency with a monstrous Homer in two, of course, on the upper deck, right field in the eighth round, approximately 475 meters. -I have three home runs once, when I was 12 years old in Little League, "said Jones. "I thought that this would be the last time".

7- Breaking the drought. Starter at third base 2008 match stars in Yankee Stadium, seven years of selected games. It is in the middle of the season, which would lead to a large, with an average of. 364. Jones, wife and parents for a game at the stadium childhood Idol, Mickey Mantle, the Center passing once. "Do you want to experience an almost 19th a little longer," said Jones.

8- The Brave’s historic day. 5th October 2001, the Grand Slam against Florida in race 10, start the hit, because you then 20-3 defeat Braves win their 10th consecutive Division titles. Braves became the pro Sports team to 10 Division titles in the net, win over the Boston Celtics (1957-65) and Los Angeles Lakers (1982-90), 9 in the NBA, in the subject line. -It was a good season blanket damn good, "said Jones. History made with the first, the third player in big league for six seasons in more than 100 products.

9- Power on a bilateral basis. The fourth part, in 2003, he met with two two-run Homer, one on each side of the plate series with a 6-4 victory to tie. In the fifth and eighth round, Braves avoided elimination. It was his first two-Homer game of qualifying with the 1995 series. "I got some ground slabs that can do something," he said.

10- Create a record in Atlanta. Beaten eggs, one on each side of the plate, Dale Murphy-career home runs Atlanta Braves in two chains on July 5, 2007 against the Dodgers, is. Jones was sixth and eighth round of his Trois% seventy Douzième Homere, both player's Braves.