"If the Dodgers were harboring hopes Jonathan Broxton had regained his closer's form, they sailed out of the park as emphatically as Juan Uribe's ninth-inning homer Saturday.

The homer off Broxton was the fourth for the San Francisco Giants in the final three innings, allowing San Francisco to turn a four-run deficit into a 5-4 victory at Dodger Stadium.

It delivered another crushing blow both to the Dodgers' slim postseason hopes and their ability to rely on the pitcher who was their closer until losing the job in mid-August.

"The only thing I can touch on right now is that he doesn't have the confidence that he has had, and will have again," Manager Joe Torre of Broxton, who suffered his sixth blown save in 28 chances.

"It looked like we were there maybe a week or 10 days ago, when he came out of there and it looked pretty easy for him. But he's just going to have to work his way through this."

With Hong-Chih Kuo, pitching for a second day in a row, used in the eighth to face left-handed hitter Aubrey Huff, Broxton entered in the ninth entrusted with a 4-3 lead. He retired the first batter before Cody Ross beat out an infield hit. Uribe followed by pounding a 1-0 pitch into the pavilion in left-center.

"I knew it was gone," Broxton said. "I hung a breaking ball. ... They capitalized on the mistake."

For all his recent struggles, it was just the third home run Broxton has allowed in 56 appearances."