Dodgers blow lead, don’t clinch NL West (AP)

Los Angeles Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton(notes) (51) and catcher Russell Martin(notes) walk off the field after serving up a bases loaded double to Pittsburgh Pirates' Lastings Milledge(notes) in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. The Pirates won 6-5.

This should have been so easy for the Dodgers: Jonathan Broxton on the mound, a three-run lead in the ninth inning against the dismal Pirates and an NL West title to celebrate as soon as they closed it out. Instead, easy turned into excruciating as Los Angeles let a victory slip away when the majors' second-worst team pulled off a four-run rally aided by several defensive lapses.

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