Starter Trevor Cahill could not make it out of the fifth inning, and made the A five errors in a 6-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners earlier this season for both teams.
A is a team built on solid starting pitching, solid defense and a reliable pen - or at least the theory. The three areas have been betrayed because they lost their seventh straight game, the opening day, a franchise record in progress.
This is the longest such series in the majors since the Phillies lost eight from 1985-92
"It 's been a bad night all around," manager Bob Geren said. "Too many walks, too many mistakes. You will not see that this club is very often."
Mariners ace Felix Hernandez, the champion won the American League Cy Young Award, pitched a five-hitter and was dominant after allowing Josh Willingham home run with two points after two outs in the first inning.
Oakland sloppy play drew boos from the crowd of 36,067, and the A's can only hope they will not lose more than a game
Catcher Kurt Suzuki left with a sprained left ankle. Seattle Miguel Olivo drove in Suzuki ankle on a play at the plate in the top of the seventh. Suzuki finished the race, but was replaced by Landon Powell at the top of the eighth session.
'S announced that it had a slight distortion, but Suzuki would not speculate that a row on Saturday night.
"It's just a little sore," he said. "We'll see how it is when I wake up tomorrow."
Willingham, A new left fielder, turned on a fastball inside Hernandez in the first and drilled on the left field wall a 2-0 lead. He became the 10th player in history to Oakland Homer in his first at-bat with the team.
But Hernandez, who struck five and walked none 108 pitches, so be prepared. Hernandez finished the first complete game on opening day in franchise history and 14th of his career.
"He was throwing the ball exactly where he wanted," said Willingham. "He has a lot of stuff, but his place was awesome."
Cahill, 23, was the youngest opening day starter since 1971, when Vida Blue took the ball at 21 years of 18-game winner in 2010, Cahill walked four and ran to the playing field is 105 Geren pulled him in fifth place.
"I think I had a little nerves more than usual," said Cahill. "For me it's not a good thing."
Mariners trailed 2-1, but took the lead in the sixth. Craig Breslow relieved Jerry Blevins and allowed RBI single Ichiro Suzuki. After Ichiro was thrown trying to steal, Chone Figgins hit a solo homer to make it 3-2.
Breslow (0-1) with three hits and was charged with three points (two earned) in two-thirds of a round.
A third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff had errors commissioning back-to-back in the fourth.
Things got really ugly during Seattle's three-run seventh. First baseman Daric Barton dropped a routine throw from reliever Brad Ziegler on Olivo's high chopper, and Ziegler let a ball slip out of his hand on a pickoff throw to first, an error that allowed Justin Smoak to score the second run of the inning.
Oakland last committed five errors in a game on July 6, 2007, at home against Seattle.
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