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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sometimes when Chipper Jones hears his name mentioned alongside some of the baseball's legendary figures, he has a difficult time believing how much he's accomplished. Dale Murphy probably doesn't. Jones, one of the game's premier switch-hitters, experienced another historic bench mark on Thursday night. He broke open a tie game with a pair of solo homers in an 8-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, tying and breaking Murphy's Atlanta Braves record.
"When you think about people that are identified with the Atlanta Braves, you think of Hank Aaron and you think of Murph," Jones said. "Just to be in the same breath with those guys — Hank, Murph, Eddie Mathews, it's a tremendous honor. I've been very blessed."
Eric Stultz (0-1) took the loss in his first relief outing since getting recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas on Wednesday. Jones drove the left-hander's 3-2 pitch into the left-field pavilion with one out in the sixth, then added his 372nd career homer and 15th of the season leading off the eighth on Chin-hui Tsao's first pitch of the game.
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