He ran a little bit in the outfield during the early workout today, but the left calf still isn’t ready for live game action. “I felt like I could push it more, so that was good,” he said. “I was able to run harder. But at the same time, I couldn’t do as much as I wanted to do. There was some tightness and some soreness there, so I had to back off. I did push it to the ceiling, but I still need some time. There is no need to go backward.” Nomar said he will try some baseball activity — in layman’s terms, that means taking ground balls and possibly batting practice — tomorrow. … By the way, I wasn’t on the team charter, but a couple of the guys who were told me that the landing was the worst good-weather landing they could remember in years — “a three-bouncer,” as one passenger called it — and apparently it was so hard that it threw all the luggage in the cargo hold up against the retaining wall so hard that it snapped and jammed the door shut, so it took an hour and a half to get the cargo hold door open to get all the bags off the plane, so the bags didn’t arrive at the hotel until really late. … Anyway, here is tonight’s lineup, which doesn’t include Andruw Jones for the second game in a row:

LF Pierre
RF Ethier
CF Kemp
2B Kent
1B Loney
C Martin
3B DeWitt
SS Hu
RH Penny