'Everything's good': Jazz's Twitter frustration a learning experience

SAN FRANCISCO -- When Saturday's Marlins lineup vs. the Giants was announced, Miami fans on Twitter expressed their frustration with Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s name being absent from it. They weren't alone in that sentiment.

Chisholm, who had knocked a then-go-ahead homer in the ninth inning of Friday's Opening Day loss, began retweeting some of the posts from his own account, before later taking them down.

"Everything's good," Chisholm told MLB.com before Sunday's 3-2 loss in the series finale in San Francisco. "[Manager Don Mattingly] knows that I'm a guy that wants to be out there every day and wants to win. He knows I'm a guy that wants to help the team win. ... Everybody knows that I'm a lover of baseball. That's all I love to do, is play baseball. And if I'm not out there trying to help my team win, I'm mad anyway, even if it is my off-day.

"Donnie knows me personally, and I feel like he understands that. Me personally, as a kid that really loves baseball, and loves playing, and always wants to be on the field to help my team win at any cost, he knows that I have very keen emotions to that type of stuff. Just with me and him, like he just knows that I'm that kid that just loves to play, and he knows I wear my emotions on my sleeve all the time."

Following Saturday's 2-1 victory at Oracle Park, Mattingly said as much.

"I don't expect anybody to be happy," Mattingly said. "I talked to Joey Wendle about it, tells me he wants to play every day. But he understands. None of these situations that are here are things that we didn't talk about. We talked about this in Spring Training and how we were going to mix and match, so there's nothing different that happened today than we've discussed as a ballclub."

The 24-year-old Chisholm not appearing in the starting lineup wasn't too much of a surprise. As Mattingly mentioned, the club intends on working favorable matchups. The left-handed-hitting Wendle and right-handed-hitting Brian Anderson, for example, are prime platoon candidates at third base. During his first full season, Chisholm posted a .206/.255/.344 slash line against southpaw starters; San Francisco sent out tough lefty Carlos Rodón, so Miami's lineup featured eight righty bats. Rodón would go on to strike out 12 batters in his Giants debut.

Asked whether he would turn to social media again if he wasn't in the lineup, Chisholm said he would better control his emotions.

"I got it out of my system," Chisholm said. "It's small things, something you learn from every time. So that was just it, [will] be it for me."

Asked whether the situation needed to be addressed with Chisholm, Mattingly said, "We're good."

Chisholm was back in Sunday's lineup, batting eighth and playing second base, where he made a leaping catch to rob Austin Slater of a leadoff hit in the first inning and drove in Miami's first run with a second-inning sacrifice fly. He later added a double.