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Jonathan Broxton may lose closer role

Updated: May 4, 2011, 3:20 AM ET
By Tony Jackson | ESPNLosAngeles.com

LOS ANGELES -- It might have been the end of an era up at Chavez Ravine on Tuesday night, and this time, it had nothing to do with Frank McCourt.

One night after giving some indication that he might have finally found himself, Jonathan Broxton indicated something else entirely different after he was brought on to pitch the ninth inning of what was quickly transformed from a tense, tie game into a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs before 38,017 at Dodger Stadium.

Dodgers manager Don ...

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