He walked toward his locker slowly late Friday night, his ankles still taped from the game, attired in the T-shirt and four pairs of sliding shorts he wears under his uniform.

Chipper Jones didn't look like he wanted to spend much time being interviewed. Then he was asked about his second consecutive two-homer game, and the 35-year-old third baseman smiled like a kid and started talking.

"I wish I could express, or begin to illustrate to people, how awesome the last couple of nights have been," said Jones, whose two homers and four RBIs fueled a 6-1 series-opening victory against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Turner Field.

The home crowd of 38,250 was treated to a near-repeat performance by Jones from the night before in Florida, when he went 4-for-4 with two homers and a double to help John Smoltz and the Braves beat the Marlins 8-0.

He had three hits and four RBIs on Friday, including a three-run homer off Derek Lowe in the fifth inning to break open what had been a close game

That's six homers this season for Jones, who leads the major leagues with a .455 batting average and leads the National League with 18 RBIs.

He has 392 career homers, but this was only the second time he ever hit multiple homers in back-to-back games. He also did it in 2003.

"Just one of those crazy streaks you get on every two or three years," said Jones, who has hit .475 with five homers and 12 RBIs in a 10-game hitting streak. "Not only getting pitches to hit and not missing them, but doing ultimate damage."

In the past two nights, the previously listless Braves have outscored opponents 14-1 and outhit them 26-8.

Jones had seven hits, four homers, 20 total bases, seven RBI, and five runs in those two games, helping the weary and injury-riddled Braves to a pair of wins after dropping six of their first eight games on the just-completed road trip.

"He's going amazing right now," said Dodgers center fielder Andruw Jones of his longtime Braves teammate. "Everything he hits is right on the money."

Dodgers manager Joe Torre said, "We were certainly alerted that he was hot. But it was a situation where we couldn't do a whole lot about it."

Braves manager Bobby Cox was ask if he'd ever seen Jones, the 1999 National League MVP, quite this hot.

"I saw it in New York, like this," he said. "At Shea [Stadium], when he was a Met-killer up there.

"His stroke is so pretty. Always has been."

The Braves have also had strong pitching for two nights. After John Smoltz and four relievers combined on a three-hit shutout Thursday, Jeff Bennett pitched 4 2/3 scoreless innings of two-hit ball in a spot-start Friday.

A few minutes after the Braves announced in the fifth inning Friday that starter Tom Glavine was going on the DL, Jones figuratively announced -- with his bat -- that he is a hitting machine. Just in case anyone wasn't aware.

Jones' three-run homer on a first-pitch sinker from Dodgers starter Derek Lowe opened a 5-0 lead.

"My preparation is paying off," Jones had said before the game, when asked about his season-opening surge, after a .337, 29-homer season in 2007. "Pretty much whatever I'm trying to do out there, against whatever pitcher, it's working -- a lot.

"Knowing the repertoire of pitchers, knowing what pitches I want to hit, goes a long way. The difference between an experienced hitter and a young hitter is being able to wait an entire at-bat to get the pitch you want to hit. And then having the confidence to know you're not going to miss it."

The Braves are 4-2 at home with a batting average over .310 and scoring average over seven runs per game. On the road they are 3-7 with a .252 average and barely four runs per game.

Bennett took a one-hit shutout to the fifth inning, when he gave up a two-out double by former Brave Rafael Furcal and a walk to Matt Kemp.

Left-hander Will Ohman entered to face lefty hitter Andre Ethier and struck him out to preserve the five-run lead.