MILWAUKEE -- The D-backs want to win every game they play, of course, but they especially wanted to come through Saturday afternoon for manager Torey Lovullo.

As they have numerous times over the past five weeks, the D-backs came close to notching a win, only to wind up losing, this time falling, 7-5, to the Brewers at American Family Field. It was a franchise-record 16th straight road loss for Arizona, which has only five wins in its past 32 games.

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Lovullo reached a boiling point during Friday night's loss at Milwaukee when he called his players together in the dugout after the third inning and unloaded on them in an exchange caught by television cameras.

"I think everybody in this clubhouse really wants to back Torey up," said second baseman Josh Rojas, who hit a pair of home runs. "Torey backs us up every night. He has our back. He wants us to do nothing but good out there. I think, as a team, we just decided that we’ve got to do this for the people around us and not for ourselves.

"I think the feeling was the last couple of days that everybody is trying to do it on their own. You’ve got to remember, this is a team game and you don’t win with one guy. You’ve got to win with a whole team."

The D-backs came out with plenty of energy Saturday, starting with defensive drills before batting practice in which both infielders and outfielders took grounders in the infield. They had a team gathering down the left-field line early as well.

Then when the game started, the D-backs jumped out to a 2-0 lead. And even when Milwaukee scored three in the fourth and two in the sixth to take a 5-2 lead, Arizona answered back with three runs in the seventh on Rojas' second homer of the day and Eduardo Escobar's game-tying two-run homer.

"Today was just an example of us trying to get together as a team and rely on one another and get close to each other and be more like a family so that we don’t put that extra pressure on ourselves to get that hit or get that strikeout or get that home run," Rojas said. "I think when you put that extra pressure on yourself, you struggle. The more you can, rely on your teammate and your brother next to you to do the job. If you can’t get it done, I think it relieves a little bit of the stress and allows you to play more free and play like we did today.

"Today was a good example of us playing together and trusting the guy behind us to do it. It didn’t result in a win, but I think you feel good about a game like today."

It didn't result in a win because Christian Yelich and Omar Narváez hit back-to-back homers to open the eighth off Joakim Soria, both of which came on changeups.

"The first pitch to Christian, it was a better location," Soria said. "It didn’t quite have the movement that I was expecting. The ball stayed flat instead of getting drop. He managed to hit it the other way. That’s what good hitters do. The other one, that’s a poor location. It looked kind of like a slider more than a changeup. Unfortunately, they put good at-bats in there and they were able to hit it out."

The D-backs' last road win came on April 25, when Madison Bumgarner threw a seven-inning no-hitter to complete a doubleheader sweep of the Braves in Atlanta.

If the D-backs win Sunday's series finale against the Brewers, they still will have gone 42 days between road wins, an eternity in a daily sport like baseball.

"My expectations are we’re going to go out tomorrow and play a perfect game," Lovullo said. "That’s the energy we bring every single day. These guys were very focused. They were engaged. That’s what makes it hurt. We’re right there. We’re right there, and we just can’t seem to close the deal. We’ve got to find a way. That’s all we can do. These guys are going to continue to give me their best effort until we get this thing moving in the right direction."