Pierre is playing, the suddenly slugging Jones is in the cleanup spot, Kent, Kemp and Nomar are sitting.

Furcal 6
Pierre 7
Loney 3
Jones 8
Ethier 9
Martin 2
DeWitt 5
Hu 4
Kuroda 1

By the way, one word I haven’t heard mentioned since we hit town on Thursday is “tornado,” but there is still plenty of evidence around downtown after that big one hit last month. The window of my room, on the 43rd floor of the Westin, looks directly across at the GP building and the Equitable building, two of the tallest structures in the Atlanta skyline, and both of them have dozens of boarded up windows, especially on the upper floors. I’m wondering if anyone was actually on those floors when those windows blew out, and what that must have been like. … Just a thought, but I think the question has to be asked whether Nomar needed a longer rehab assignment. He is 1 for 10 (zero for his past nine) at the plate, and yesterday, he made three fielding gaffes (only one was an error, but one of the non-errors cost the Dodgers two runs). After the game, Torre said Nomar was “still getting his legs under him.” When I pressed him and asked if that suggested he should have had a longer rehab — because, really, when you come off the DL to play in games that actually count, your legs should be under you by then, IMHO — Torre seemed to push it off on Nomar, saying that with veteran players, you have to trust them to tell you when they’re ready.