ATLANTA — Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez doesn't regret calling out Milwaukee reliever Will Smith for breaking a rule that some pitchers might break every night.
"It was about as plain as it could be," Gonzalez said. "It's pretty blatant. Really. It's glistening through the lights. You could see it in the dugout."
Julio Teheran pitched seven strong innings and the Atlanta Braves took advantage of Smith's seventh-inning ejection for using rosin and sunscreen illegally in a 10-1 victory Thursday night.
Play was stopped briefly with Atlanta leading 2-1 and the bases loaded with one out in the seventh when Gonzalez successfully argued that Smith had a foreign substance on his right forearm.