Giants get in the last shot in the ninth

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Dodgers didn’t mince their words.

This one hurt.

Jonathan Broxton gave up his second home run in as many days, this one a walk-off blast by Dan Ortmeier that cost the Dodgers a 5-4 decision against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T; Park on a Friday night when Nomar Garciaparra returned to their lineup.

“We can’t give away any games,” Juan Pierre said. “That’s what we did tonight. It’s a big loss.”

The Dodgers fell 4 1/2 games back of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West and remained 2 1/2 games behind the San Diego Padres in the wild card. Next week, the Dodgers will host both teams.

Pierre wasn’t talking only about Ortmeier’s blast to right-center. The Dodgers had a 3-1 lead in the seventh, only to see an errant throw by Rafael Furcal to Jeff Kent at second base create a sequence of events that resulted in three unearned runs for the Giants.

“It looked like he lost his footing out there,” Dodgers Manager Grady Little said. “It was just a mess-up play all around.”

But for the second day in a row, the Dodgers erased a ninth-inning deficit with a single swing. The home run, James Loney’s second of the game and third in two days, tied the score, a day after Andre Ethier’s three-run homer led to a victory over the Chicago Cubs.

“I just had to go out there and shut them down,” said Broxton, who had a streak of 94 games without giving up a home run end last month. “I made a mistake.”

And the Dodgers were denied their 12th consecutive victory at AT&T; Park.

The decision to play Garciaparra was based on how he ran the bases during pregame warmups Thursday in Chicago. Little said he wasn’t worried about the possibility of Garciaparra once again straining the calf that had sidelined him since Aug. 14.

“We wouldn’t put him out there if we were nervous,” Little said.

Garciaparra went 0 for 4, but he played solid defense at third, recording four assists without a problem, and Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley looked like the pitcher who had won his last three games.

Billingsley’s only misstep in the first two-thirds of the game was a home run by Bengie Molina in the second inning that tied the score at 1-1. Loney’s first home run in the fifth and Matt Kemp’s RBI double in the sixth gave Billingsley a 3-1 lead heading into the seventh.

But Billingsley gave up a leadoff single to Barry Bonds and, with his pitch count at 94, Little decided his night was over.

“That was Grady’s call,” Billingsley said. “I felt I could’ve gone the rest of the way, but it was not my call. What could I do? I wanted to still be in there. My arm still felt good.”

Little called on Scott Proctor to relieve Billingsley, but Furcal’s error put men on first and second.

“Proctor came in and did his job,” Little said. “He got a ground ball.”

Two batters later, Proctor gave up a single to Pedro Feliz that drove in Bonds. A groundout by Omar Vizquel scored pinch-runner Eugenio Velez.

Joe Beimel replaced Proctor, but he gave up a single to pinch-hitter Randy Winn that scored Feliz to give the Giants the lead.

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dylan.hernandez@latimes.com