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The ball looked like it had a chance, and when Andre Ethier saw it caught at the warning track as he was rounding first base, he stopped, kicked dirt and slammed his helmet to the ground. What nearly was a score-tying three-run home run in the seventh inning went down as a simple F-9. So it went for the Dodgers, the swing that could change the game never coming Tuesday night in their 10-5 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Their flailing offense was shut down on this night by Doug Davis, who was two days away from surgery to remove a cancerous thyroid gland. The loss was the third in the last four games for the Dodgers, who got their only meaningful runs on a two-run double by Jeff Kent in the sixth that reduced their deficit to 5-2.