Diamondbacks right fielder Adam Jones briefly chided himself. Thinking back on the ball Chris Taylor drove just off his outstretched glove in the sixth inning on Tuesday night, Jones called it a play he had to make. A moment later, he had reconsidered.

“He hit that ball hard,” Jones said, sounding more forgiving of himself. “I gave a great effort. It’s a game of millimeters. It was just a tad bit out of my reach.”

No one was blaming Jones for being unable to track down Taylor’s ball, but the play stood out as perhaps the difference in the game, a 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chase Field. On what has been a disastrous homestand, it was the latest moment the Diamondbacks failed to capture, yet another isolated incident that helped contribute to yet another loss.

The Diamondbacks lost for the seventh time in their past nine games, including six of eight on a homestand that will conclude on Wednesday afternoon. They fell back under .500 at 40-41 and dropped to 16-22 at home.

The loss was their 17th in 29 one-run games this season. No team in the majors has played or lost more one-run games than the Diamondbacks.

They lost on Tuesday because they could not do enough against the Dodgers’ parade of arms. And they lost because the Dodgers delivered three consecutive extra-base hits off lefty Robbie Ray in the sixth, the last coming off Taylor’s bat – and off Jones’ glove.

After Justin Turner pulled a Ray breaking ball out to left for a game-tying, solo homer, Alex Verdugo followed by lacing a full-count fastball into left for a double. That brought Taylor to the plate. He wasted no time, scorching the first pitch he saw, a fastball on the outer-third of the plate, out to right.

“Off the bat I was like, ‘Hey, get on your horse,’ ” Jones recalled. “I knew he hit it good. It just hit off the absolute tip of my pinky finger. An old coach of mine used to say, if it hits the grass, that’s your ass. I can picture him being mad at me that the ball hit the ground.”

“He barreled it,” Ray said. “I think we had him playing kind of right-center-ish, maybe, so he had to run a good ways for it. I don’t think you can expect a ball like that to be caught.”

The Diamondbacks began the bottom of the sixth with a 2-1 lead, thanks to a pair of run-scoring hits from David Peralta, who doubled home Eduardo Escobar in the first, then singled home Ketel Marte in the third. Those hits came off starter Ross Stripling, who was limited to three innings and 60 pitches as he is being built back up to a starter’s workload.

After that, the Diamondbacks managed next-to-nothing against the Dodgers’ bullpen. Four relievers combined to allow just two hits and a walk, with lefty Julio Urias leading the way with three scoreless innings.

“They threw some good arms at us,” Diamondbacks shortstop Nick Ahmed said. “I had four at-bats against four different pitchers. It’s never easy, especially when most of them are back-end type arms that are throwing mid-to-upper-90s.”

The Diamondbacks failed to put a runner in scoring position against a Dodgers reliever until the ninth, when Ahmed shot a two-out, two-strike single to right and stole second with Carson Kelly at the plate.

Kelly fought through a nine-pitch at-bat, fouling off four consecutive pitches with two strikes, before the game ended on a strange play. Jansen threw a slider that bounced a couple of feet in front of home plate, but Kelly inadvertently made contact with the ball while trying to check his swing. Dodgers catcher Will Smith picked up the roller in front of the plate and fired the ball to first.

“It was a very confusing moment there,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. “I didn’t know what happened there. It could have deflected off his foot. It was a bounce pass. It hit his bat. Carson was taking some really swings. He bounced the ball and it probably threw him off a little bit. I haven’t seen a finish like that.”