"So much for the sore hamstring. One day after the Braves were trying to decide whether to disable Nate McLouth, he went out and made three stellar running catches in center field - or two catches and one trap. Replays showed he dropped a diving attempt in the sixth inning but he disguised it well, and the Braves got a double play out of it.

Running that hard on the hamstring answered a few questions in McLouth's mind.

"It wasn't (perfect)," he said Wednesday afternoon. "But it was fine and obviously more than good enough to go."

McLouth said he knows that because he didn't think about his hamstring when he took off after those fly balls.

"That's how I knew it was a good test," he said.

McLouth said he didn't do anything specific in spring training to injure it but woke up Friday morning with stiffness. He said it felt similar to the left hamstring injury that hampered him on and off for the last two months of last season."