Green Bay, Wis. ? The Philadelphia Eagles held onto the wet ball to keep from slipping in the standings.

Donovan McNabb threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Todd Pinkston with 27 seconds left, giving the Eagles a 17-14 victory over the Green Bay Packers on a rainy Monday night.

The Eagles (6-3) stayed one game behind Dallas in the NFC East, and the Packers (4-5) blew their shot at closing within a game of slumping Minnesota in the NFC North.

“It surely wasn’t pretty. I would imagine Mike Sherman would say the same thing,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said of his counterpart. “But we overcame the adversity. In the fourth quarter, it was great leadership by Donovan. In that last drive he really put it together.”

Pinkston caught his first touchdown pass of the season when he beat cornerback Bhawoh Jue off the line and got free in the left side of the end zone. Jue had replaced starter Al Harris, who was bothered by cramps.

“We just came together at the end,” McNabb said. “What we showed tonight is why we’re a winning team. Never count us out. It’s an exciting season right now.”

The Eagles have won four straight games in which they trailed at halftime.

“I have a feeling that’s the way it’s going to be,” Reid said. “This team, they’re fighters. I’ll take them any way I can get them.”

Philly started the winning drive at its 35 with 2:42 remaining and McNabb completed passes of 11 yards to Duce Staley and 20 yards to Chad Lewis.

Philadelphia quarterback Donovan McNabb celebrates throwing the game-winning touchdown pass to Todd Pinkston in the fourth quarter. The Eagles beat the Packers, 17-14, Monday night in Green Bay, Wis.

The Packers drove to midfield with eight seconds left when Brett Favre, playing despite a broken right thumb, fumbled for the third time, sealing Green Bay’s third home loss of the season.

Ahman Green rushed for a team-record 192 yards and scored on a 45-yard run and a 24-yard screen pass. But he fumbled two more times, giving him an NFL-leading seven.

His 45-yard TD on fourth-and-1 with seven minutes left gave Green Bay a 14-10 lead. It came after the Eagles had taken their first lead at 10-7 on McNabb’s 1-yard run with 9:32 left in the fourth quarter.

McNabb set up his first rushing touchdown of the season with a 51-yard pass to James Thrash when defensive back Mike McKenzie slipped on the soaked grass.

Favre said last week he was having so much fun running Green Bay’s turbocharged offense he was leaning toward returning next season rather than retiring, but he had a miserable Monday night.

He was 14-of-22 for 109 yards with one TD, one interception and three fumbles, two of which he lost, including the final one, which was recovered by defensive tackle Darwin Walker.