By ANDREW BAGNATO
AP Sports Writer

PHOENIX(AP) -- Joe Torre chose to look on the bright side after
the Los Angeles Dodgers walked in the winning run in a 4-3 loss
to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night.

The loss sliced the Dodgers' NL West lead to 2 1/2 games over
the surging Colorado Rockies, but Torre said he was happy to
take two of three from the Diamondbacks.

"I'm very positive about this series," Torre said. "This was a
disappointment, this game. You'd like to win the ballgame, but
you had your opportunities."

Last season, the Diamondbacks and Dodgers dueled into September
before Los Angeles pulled away. This year, the Diamondbacks have
been out of contention for months, but they relished playing the
spoiler role in the division race, if only for one night.

"I think the whole NL West might have been watching that game,"
said Arizona manager A.J. Hinch, whose team snapped a six-game
skid.

Manny Ramirez and James Loney hit back-to-back homers for the
Dodgers, who are off Thursday before opening a three-game series
at San Francisco on Friday.

The Diamondbacks' winning rally began when Ramon Troncoso (4-3)
threw away Gerardo Parra's roller to the mound, allowing him to
reach second on the error.

"I left my shoulder a little down," Troncoso said.

As it turned out, that was the only ball that left the infield
in the bottom of the ninth.

Trent Oeltjen ran for Parra and took third on Ryan Roberts'
sacrifice. After intentional walks to Stephen Drew and Justin
Upton, Troncoso missed with a 3-2 fastball to Mark Reynolds, who
had fouled off a pair of pitches with two strikes.

"I was just trying to put the ball in play," Reynolds said. "I
just fouled off some tough pitches and was able to work a good
AB."

Torre said he walked Drew and Upton to set up a force at home.
He also hoped Troncoso could strike out Reynolds, who leads the
majors with 190 strikeouts.

Had that happened, the Dodgers still would have had to retire
Miguel Montero, who homered, doubled and singled.

"When you're going through the middle of the lineup, you really
don't have a lot of choices," Torre said. "Upton certainly has
been doing a hell of a job, and Reynolds, the one thing you feel
you have going is he swings and misses a lot."

Juan Gutierrez (4-3) pitched out of a jam in the eighth and got
the final five outs for the Diamondbacks. Dan Haren allowed
three runs and struck out nine in 7 1-3 innings.

Los Angeles led 3-2 before Upton tied it with a run-scoring
grounder to third in the fifth.

After allowing one-out singles to Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier in
the eighth, Haren gave way to Gutierrez, who struck out Ramirez
and Loney to end the threat.

"Unfortunately, we couldn't cash in," Torre said.

Los Angeles' Jon Garland started against his former team for the
second time in six days. Arizona dealt Garland to the Dodgers
during a series in Los Angeles on Aug. 31.

Los Angeles gave Garland a quick 1-0 lead in the first, when
Rafael Furcal led off with a triple and scored two outs later on
Ramirez's bad-hop single off third baseman Reynolds' glove.

The Diamondbacks tied it in the second on Montero's 14th homer.
Five pitches later, Chris Young also hit a drive to right for
his fifth homer in four games and Arizona's seventh set of
back-to-back shots this season.

Los Angeles rallied in the fourth with consecutive homers of its
own, by Ramirez and Loney - the eighth time the Dodgers have
done it this year.

Garland went six innings, allowing three runs and six hits.

NOTES: Dodgers LHP Randy Wolf will miss his scheduled Friday
start at San Francisco with elbow irritation. Hiroki Kuroda will
take Wolf's turn. ... LHP Scott Schoeneweis threw to hitters
before batting practice, and he's likely to return to the
Diamondbacks' bullpen in the next week. Schoeneweis was on the
disabled list from Aug. 11-Sept. 7 because of depression
following his wife's death.