PHOENIX -- While the Shawn Green trade to the Mets this week appeared to signal that the Diamondbacks were waving the white flag on this season, they didn't play that way on Friday night when they outlasted the Dodgers, 9-7, with a 15th-inning walk-off homer by Orlando Hudson.

While wasting a pair of home runs and four RBIs from J.D. Drew and a homer from catcher Russell Martin that snapped a 1-for-21 slump, the Dodgers suffered a fourth consecutive loss that brought back memories of their post All-Star break tailspin, as well as tightened up the National League Western Division. Three teams are within 3 1/2 games of them.

This marathon was no first-place effort, particularly for the Dodgers, who are 1-7 in extra-inning games this year. It lasted five hours and six minutes and saw both teams use a total of 41 players, including eight Arizona pitchers. For those scoring at home, the Diamondbacks had 13 players in the No. 9 spot in the batting order. Arizona stranded a club record-tying 21 runners, while Los Angeles left 11.

The Dodgers committed a pair of errors that led to three unearned runs -- one was charged to third baseman Wilson Betemit and the other was charged to first baseman Nomar Garciaparra (but just as easily could have gone to Betemit for a throw that sailed off Garciaparra's glove). They scored only one run over the final 11 innings, while the bullpen, specifically Jonathan Broxton and Takashi Saito, could not convert two save opportunities.

Even before the game went overtime, the Dodgers' bullpen was tested. With Joe Beimel unavailable because of a sore arm (he went to the bullpen in the 15th inning anyway and said he should be available on Saturday), starter Greg Maddux could make it only five innings. And while two of the four runs he allowed were earned, the 10 hits were proof he wasn't fooling anybody.

"If I pitch a little better, go a little deeper and things change after that, but I didn't," said Maddux. "I put a lot of heat on the bullpen going five innings, and it makes it tough on everybody down there. I felt lucky I went as long as I did. I didn't pitch very well."

While Maddux was long gone following Hudson's home run, the recent Maddux trend is as disturbing as his team's. Although he hasn't lost as a Dodger, this no-decision followed a mediocre winning outing in San Francisco last weekend.

"Maddux was leaving too many pitches right in the middle of the plate," said manager Grady Little. "That's not the way he pitches."

But it is the way he pitches against Arizona. He's 1-9 with a 5.16 ERA lifetime against the Diamondbacks and 0-5 at Chase Field.

"I have no idea why," Maddux said of the exception to an otherwise Hall of Fame career.

The Dodgers would have lost this game in regulation time if not for a pair of spectacular defensive plays by shortstop Rafael Furcal, most notably in the fifth inning when playing back, with a runner on third base and one out, he cleanly gloved Carlos Quentin's one-hop smash and unleashed a cannon throw to nail Conor Jackson at the plate.

"Some kind of play," marveled Little.

Furcal said he's made the play before, and he considers it an option depending on the speed of the runner at third and how fast the ball gets to him.

The Dodgers also had reason to be optimistic about the hitting of Drew, who has 10 RBIs on this trip. Little said Drew's best at-bat might not have been either home run off Arizona starter Claudio Vargas, but his two-out RBI single in the 11th inning after Furcal singled and stole second.

"One of the best at-bats I've seen him have or anyone can have," said Little. "But it wasn't quite enough tonight."

Both teams scored in the 11th inning, as the Dodgers brought on Saito and he walked Jackson, who also had four hits. The run was unearned because of the error charged to Garciaparra; Jackson scored on Quentin's sacrifice fly.

"Any time you walk the leadoff hitter, you're inviting trouble and that's what he got," said Little.