It was business as usual for 8 innings for Brandon Webb and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. Webb held the Los Angeles Dodgers in check for those 8 innings, allowing just 1 run, and exiting with a 4-1 lead after throwing 109 pitches. He was only 3 outs away from earning his 14th win of the season.

It wasn’t to be, as the Dodgers lit up closer Brandon Lyon, the Diamondbacks’ defense extended the top of the 9th, and a nearly sure victory turned into a 6-5 loss to Los Angeles.

Nomar Garciaparra led off the 9th with a double. James Loney followed with a single. With runners on 2nd and 3rd and nobody out, Andruw Jones followed, and hit a tailor-made double play ball to Stephen Drew at short. Drew bobbled it, and had to settle for getting only the out at first. Garciaparra scored to make it 4-2. Then with 2 outs, Andy LaRoche singled in Loney, and Matt Kemp doubled in the tying run. No save for Lyon, no win for Webb. But Lyon failed to keep the Diamondbacks even, giving up an rbi triple to Andre Ethier that scored Kemp and give the Dodgers the lead. Leo Rosales replaced Lyon, and gave up an rbi single to Russell Martin to make it 6-4. Jeff Kent finally ended the inning by flying out to right, but the damage had been done. The Dodgers had racked up 5 runs on 6 hits in the 9th, after only managing 6 hits over the first 8 innings of the ballgame.

In his last two appearances, Lyon has given up 7 runs on 8 hits, in an inning and two-thirds.

Stephen Drew made it a bit closer in the bottom half of the inning, singling off of Dodger closer Jonathan Broxton and scoring pinch-runner Emilio Bonifacio to make it 6-5. Conor Jackson then hit a chopper up the middle, which forced Drew at second, ending the ballgame.

Instead of taking 2 of 3 from the Dodgers, and stretching their lead to 2 games in the National League West, the Diamondbacks lost 2 of three and are once again tied with Los Angeles with the best team in the National League, the Chicago Cubs headed to Chase Field for a three-game series.

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Here’s what others are saying about the Dodgers come-from-behind win over the D-Backs…

Bullpen fails D-Backs [AzCentral.com]

Dodgers 6, Diamondbacks 5 [Los Angeles Daily News]

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