The dastardly Diamondbacks. If they're not kicking the Braves when they're down, they're sucking the energy out of them when the Braves look ready to roll.

It happened again Sunday, when Arizona pounded Tom Glavine and the Braves 9-3 in a tedious walk-a-thon that left a Turner Field crowd of 35,628 with little to get excited over except sunny weather.

The Braves issued a season-high 11 walks including six by Glavine in 4 2/3 innings.

"I was really happy with the way I threw, just not happy with the results," said Glavine (2-2), who surrendered six runs and five hits and left after Eric Byrnes hit a two-out grand slam in the fifth inning.

It was only the second grand slam Glavine allowed in his major league career and first as a Braves pitcher.

After winning six of the first seven games of an 11-game homestand, including a four-game sweep of the New York Mets, the Braves have dropped two of three in this four-game series against the Diamondbacks.

The Diamondbacks, National League West leaders, came to town mired in a six-game road losing skid in which they'd scored a total of 10 runs. They got their ship righted with an 11-1 win on Friday and another rout Sunday.

Arizona is 12-4 against Atlanta since the 2006 season, and the Braves need a win today to salvage a split of the four-game series and to avoid their fifth consecutive series loss to the D-backs.

Oh, by the way: 2006 Cy Young Award winner Brandon Webb (9-1) will start today for the Diamondbacks against hotshot Braves rookie Jair Jurrjens (5-3).

Webb pitched complete-game shutouts in his last two games against Atlanta.

"We can win 1-nothing with J.J., it's not an issue," second baseman Kelly Johnson said of Jurrjens, who is 4-0 with a 1.48 ERA in five home starts.

Jeff Francoeur's game-ending two-run homer Saturday gave the Braves a dramatic 3-1 victory, but any carry-over buzz fizzled when Arizona leadoff man Chris Young homered on Glavine's second pitch Sunday, the drive nicking the top of left fielder Gregor Blanco's glove as he leapt in front of the wall.

Young has hit .378 with six homers and nine RBIs in his past nine games against the Braves.

Glavine allowed another run in the first after a double and consecutive walks. The Braves thought umpire Gary Cederstrom's strike zone was especially tight.

When Glavine's pitches on or just off the edges of the plate aren't called strikes, the left-hander can get bad results against a patient team. The D-backs laid off plenty of close pitches and teed off on some that found the plate.

"However you want to term it," Glavine said, when asked if he meant he was missing with pitches or that close pitches weren't called strikes.

Gainesville native Micah Owings (6-2) was charged with three runs, six hits and two walks in six innings, and got more than enough support in the fifth inning when his teammates erased Atlanta's fleeting lead — and then some.

The Braves scored two runs in the second inning on four consecutive singles and a walk, then moved ahead 3-2 in the third when Johnson hit a leadoff single and scored on a two-out error by right fielder Justin Upton.

But after flirting with disaster in the third and escaping on Byrnes' bases-loaded popup, Glavine wasn't nearly so fortunate in the same situation in the fifth. Arizona had two outs before Glavine gave up a double and consecutive walks to bring up Byrnes with two outs and the bases loaded, again.

Byrnes connected with a changeup and hit a ball that bounced off the top of the left-field fence and over, the first grand slam off Glavine since Montreal's Jose Vidro hit on against him in 2003 in Glavine's first season with the Mets.