The Braves are glad that they won't face former teammate John Smoltz in either of their two interleague series over the next ten days. Smoltz will make his Red Sox debut against the Nationals next Thursday. "Smoltzie is a guy who gets pretty geeked up to begin with, and he hasn't pitched in a long time," Chipper Jones said. "He's going to have a lot of extra emotion and adrenaline going in his first few starts. The added pressure of pitching against his former team, in his former city and the place he's been an icon for so long, facing so many of the guys that he's gone to war with over the years -- I think it would probably be in their best interest for him not to pitch." Jeff Francoeur would have enjoyed facing Smoltz in Boston, but not Atlanta. "If he'd been pitching a month or two, it wouldn't have been that big of a deal," Francoeur said. "But it'd be tough to do that to a guy like him to make his first start against us. ... He doesn't want to pitch against Bobby [Cox]. He doesn't want to pitch against us."