It happened in Savannah. Never before and never since in former Atlanta Braves great Andruw Jones' long professional baseball career.
That's 17 seasons and 2,196 games in Major League Baseball. Never happened once, Jones said Friday.
"That was the only time I got thrown out of a professional game and that was in A ball," said Jones, now 45 and a special assistant to the Atlanta Braves' baseball operations department.
Jones played for Macon Braves in 1995, his second season in the minors. The Curacao native was 18 years old and already in the Class A South Atlantic League, which then included the Savannah Cardinals and their already historic ballpark, Grayson Stadium.