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Pirates score four in the ninth to deny Dodgers' chance to clinch West crown

Associated Press

Sunday, September 27, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- 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. Right fielder Andre Ethier misplayed Lastings Milledge's two-run single for an error that allowed t ...

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