ANAHEIM, Calif. " Jason Giambi, Jack Cust and Ryan Sweeney had three hits apiece to lead a 16-hit attack by the Oakland Athletics in a 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.
The A's bounced back from a 3-0 loss in Monday night's season opener, when they managed only three hits.
Oakland pushed across two runs in the seventh inning against Kevin Jepsen (0-1) to take a 5-3 lead. Eric Chavez had a run-scoring fielder's choice and Cust picked up his second RBI of the game with a broken-bat bloop single to center field. Giambi added an RBI double in the eighth.
Brad Ziegler gave up Bobby Abreu's RBI single in the ninth inning before striking out Vladimir Guerrero and Torii Hunter to earn his first save.
Oakland starter Trevor Cahill worked five innings in his major league debut, allowing three runs, two earned, and five hits. The 21-year-old right-hander issued five walks, one intentional, and struck out one.
Michael Wuertz (0-1) pitched a scoreless sixth inning to get the win.
Dustin Moseley gave up three runs and nine hits in six innings for the Angels.
Kendry Morales singled in Hunter in the fifth to tie it at 3. The run was unearned because of a two-base error by Cust, who dropped Guerrero's fly to short right-center leading off the inning.
Cust, Travis Buck and Mark Ellis had run-scoring singles in the fourth to give Oakland a 3-2 lead. Nomar Garciaparra began the rally with a leadoff hit, one of four singles off Moseley in the inning.
Los Angeles manufactured a run to take a 1-0 lead in the first. Chone Figgins walked, stole second and went to third on Howie Kendrick's fly to the warning track in right. He scored on Abreu's groundout.
Guerrero followed with a single and Hunter doubled, but Cahill intentionally walked Morales to load the bases and retired Juan Rivera on a fly to center.
Jeff Mathis led off the Angels' second with a double, advanced to third on Eric Aybar's sacrifice and raced home on a wild pitch by Cahill.
Notes: Oakland's Matt Holliday sat out. Manager Bob Geren said the left fielder just didn't feel well. Buck replaced him. ... Los Angeles CF Hunter was presented his eighth consecutive Gold Glove in a pregame ceremony.