LOS ANGELES — Manager Torey Lovullo admitted he did not sleep well, but he had no interest in reliving the ninth inning of the Diamondbacks’ stunning collapse on Tuesday night, in which two of his relievers combined to walk five consecutive batters to turn a one-run lead into a 5-4 walk-off loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Closer Greg Holland, after getting two quick outs and jumping ahead of the next hitter 0-2, walked four consecutive batters to tie game, missing the strike zone on 16 of his final 20 pitches. Reliever T.J. McFarland entered and issued a six-pitch walk to Cody Bellinger to force home the winning run.

Lovullo said he did not rewatch the inning on video. He didn’t feel like it was necessary, not after getting feedback from everyone from his mom to others inside and outside the Diamondbacks’ organization.

Lovullo did not have any second thoughts about sticking with his closer, a reliever who to that point had been a reliable option in the ninth inning. Holland was clearly struggling to throw strikes — Lovullo did not pretend he saw anything different than everyone else — but he believed Holland remained his best option until the lead vanished.

"Not a thing," Lovullo said. "Not anything different."

And he doesn’t think he handled it differently than anyone else, a point his boss also made Wednesday.

"I think deep down, if you follow the game enough, (you know) most managers will stay with their closer until there’s no (option)," Lovullo said. "I just know that he can make one pitch and get on a great roll and throw a ton of strikes."

Said Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen: "There’s not a manager in baseball that would have taken him out in that situation.

"Torey, I think, had pushed all the right buttons. He put the team in position to succeed and now the team has to go out and succeed. I don’t think the manager can do all those things; I don’t think he has that much power. They have to go out and succeed."

Holland called his performance "unacceptable," but he didn’t seem to have an explanation for why things went wrong. After jumping ahead 0-2 on the third batter of the inning, Chris Taylor, Holland threw four consecutive sliders out of the zone, trying to tempt Taylor to chase. It didn’t work.

Looking back, Holland said he probably should have been more aggressive in the zone against Taylor. It seemed like once he left the zone in that at-bat he couldn’t find his way back.

"It pisses me off," Holland said. "We should have won the game. It’s my responsibility to attack. Two outs and nobody on, we didn’t deserve to lose that game. It’s my responsibility to be better than that."

If there was a moment when it seemed Holland had entirely lost the zone it was against the final batter he faced, Matt Beaty, whom he walked on four consecutive pitches. Both his 1-0 and 2-0 pitches were low fastballs that catcher Alex Avila had trouble receiving, but Lovullo said he isn’t a big believer in making pitching changes in the middle of an at-bat.

"At that point (against Beaty), I could tell something was out of balance and it was wobbling, but I am not a fan of it," Lovullo said. "I’m sitting here telling you I don’t believe in it, but I’m not telling you I’ll never do it. There would have to be a really good reason for me to do it in the middle of an at-bat."

Reach Piecoro at (602) 444-8680 or nick.piecoro@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @nickpiecoro.

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