Bally Sports announces Players Only Booth will return on May 15

Bally Sports announced Tuesday that the Players Only booth will return May 15 for the Atlanta Braves game against the Chicago Cubs. Chipper Jones, Tom Glavine and Jeff Francoeur will be joined by Brian McCann.

The first Players Only booth took place last June and featured Joes, Glavine, Francoeur and John Smoltz, which garnered widespread praise. They returned again on August 23 and this broadcast was one of the three highest rated games of the season for regional sports networks.

“When we started this special with Chipper, Glav, Smoltzy and Frenchy last season; Braves Nation fans most often described the show as ‘epic,’” said Jeff Genthner, senior vice president and general manager of Bally Sports South. “On May 15, we do it again with Brian McCann joining the stand in place of John Smoltz, who will celebrate his birthday that day. We anticipate the same unpredictable party atmosphere of covering Braves baseball and wish Brian the best as he holds his own in the booth with his former teammates.

Regular play-by-play announcers Brandon Gaudin and CJ Nitkowski will have the evening off and there will be no sideline reporter for the game to keep their focus in the broadcast booth. The pre-game show featuring Trevor Scales and Peter Moylan will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET.