James Loney homered leading off the 11th inning to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-7 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.

Nomar Garciaparra had his first multihomer game in nearly six years and Matt Kemp also homered for the Dodgers, who won their second straight to pull into a first-place tie with the Diamondbacks in the NL West.

Loney's home run off Doug Slaten (0-3) was the Dodgers' third solo shot over the final five innings and the clubs' season-high fourth of the game.

Cory Wade (1-1) pitched the 10th for the Dodgers and one-time closer Jonathan Broxton, Los Angeles' eighth pitcher, came on in the 11th for his first save in six opportunities. He's filling in for injured closer Takashi Saito.

Garciaparra finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBIs. He hit two homers in a game for the first time since August 4, 2002, for the Boston Red Sox against Texas.

Chris Young was 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs scored, Chad Tracy drove in a pair of runs and Conor Jackson was 3-for-5 with two walks for the Diamondbacks.

Young tripled into the right-field corner and scored in the third inning to put Arizona ahead 7-5, but the Los Angeles bullpen held the Diamondbacks scoreless on six hits over the final eight innings.

Garciaparra hit his second home run to lead off the sixth inning against reliever Yusmeiro Petit and pull the Dodgers to 7-6. Kemp then hit a one-out homer off Leo Rosales in the seventh to tie the game at 7.

The teams combined for seven runs on nine hits, two walks and three errors in the first inning as the Diamondbacks took a 4-3 lead. Andre Ethier and Russell Martin had RBI doubles for Los Angeles while Tracy and Mark Reynolds had run-scoring singles for Arizona. Continued...