The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chipper Jones to make his ESPN debut during Braves-Mets series
De Boer says he’s not worried despite being shut out twice in Orlando.
Chipper Jones will make his regular-season debut in his new job as an ESPN analyst by calling games involving the team he knows best: the Braves. Jones and play-byplay announcer Jon “Boog” Sciambi will work the Braves-Mets games Friday and July 26.
The 4 p.m. game Friday, the Braves’ season opener in New York, also will be televised on Fox Sports South, with the ESPN telecast blacked out in the Atlanta market. The 7 p.m. game July 26 will air exclusively on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball.”
Jones, a Hall of Famer who played for the Braves for 19 seasons, joined ESPN as an MLB game analyst in February. After the opening weekend of the season, his main role will be on weeknight telecasts.
ESPN plans for its play-byplay announcers and analysts to call games at the start of the season from a Bristol, Connecticut, studio or their homes. note:
the COVID-19 pandemic. League safety precautions severely limit the AJC’s in
coverage of Atlanta United. The following report has been compiled from television broadcast and interviews.
Though his team hasn’t scored in more than 300 minutes, including Thursday’s 1-0 shutout by mostly defenseless FC Cincinnati, Atlanta United manager Frank de Boer said he’s not worried about goals.
“If you have to take a striker off because you are down a man, it’s normal that you don’t score two or three goals,” he said.
Atlanta United was reduced to 10 men in the 26th minute because
Jake Mulraney received his second yellow card and was sent off. That and playing without Josef Martinez (who is out for the season) in