With both teams engaged in ultra-tight pennant races, the importance of a game like this can feel like it greatly exceeds the simple won-lost binary.
For Memphis, to implode like this undermines your late-inning confidence to close out games; for Homestead such an amazing comeback makes you think you can win from any position. Neither posits are essentially true, of course, but the closer you get to the end of the season, the more blurred the line between perception and reality becomes.