ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Last Saturday, Los Angeles Angels right-hander Tim Lincecum got his first win in just over a year, beating the Oakland Athletics. He balanced things out Thursday night, taking his first loss in just over a year, this time losing to the A's.

Lincecum lasted only three innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and two walks in Oakland's 5-4 victory over the Angels at Angel Stadium.

The two-time Cy Young Award winner, who signed with the Angels on May 20 and made three minor league starts after recovering from hip surgery performed last September, was solid in his debut Saturday, giving up just one run and four hits over six innings.

On Thursday, the A's tagged him for six hits in the second inning alone, including a three-run homer by Marcus Semien that set the tone for the game.

"He was real tough against us five days ago," A's catcher Stephen Vogt said. "And he was good again today, but we jumped on his mistakes early. He made more mistakes than he did five days ago, but we were patient, we didn't come out as aggressive as we did the other day. We made him work."

Although the A's scored all four of their runs against Lincecum in the second inning, they also had baserunners in the first and third innings. By the time Lincecum (1-1) got through the third, he had made 83 pitches and was finished for the night.

"I just don't know if he got into as many good counts tonight, he was working for every strike and got into some deep counts," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "But if you look at some of the hits early, they put a bunch of scratch hits together, then hit one out of the park. You look at the hits, nine baserunners in three innings and it looks ugly, but I don't know if it was quite that bad."

Khris Davis added a solo homer in the fifth inning for Oakland, which got exactly one hit from everybody in the starting lineup.

A's starter Kendall Graveman (3-6) limited the Angels to two runs on eight hits in 6 2/3 innings. He earned his first win since May 30 against the Minnesota Twins.

In fact, the victory for Gravemen was the first by any A's starter in 18 games, the previous one coming from Sean Manaea on June 1.

The keys for Graveman were his sinker and his ability to keep the ball down. He was helped by Vogt, who has been working on setting a lower target. Twelve of the 20 outs recorded by Graveman on Thursday came on ground balls.

"It's a thing you can throw on a 2-1, 3-1 count and still get outs like we did tonight, you don't have to go off-speed all the time," Graveman said of his sinker. "Just locating in the bottom of the zone. Vogt did another great job, he's setting his body up better behind the plate to be able to stick some of the lower pitches that may be borderline down, and I think it's really setting my eyes down there."

Marc Rzepczynski replaced Graveman and got the final out of the seventh inning. Ryan Madson pitched a 1-2-3 eighth before Sean Doolittle made things interesting in the ninth.

Doolittle got his fourth save of the season, but not before he surrendered a two-run homer to Angels catcher Jett Bandy that cut the margin to one run.

One out away from the end of the game, Angels pinch hitter Jefry Marte lost control of his bat on a swing, the bat then hitting plate umpire Paul Emmel on the head.

Emmel immediately went down as blood poured from the top of his head. He was tended to by trainers and left the game, taken to the Angels' training room.

"I'm sure he's going to need some stitches, doctors were just looking at him a second ago," Scioscia said. "He seemed like he's OK. Scary, no doubt. Those guys don't wear a skull cap, and a bat comes flying, it's scary."

The loss dropped the Angels (31-42) to a season-worst 11 games under .500 and 16 games behind the first-place Texas Rangers in the American League West. Los Angeles is only a half-game ahead of last-place Oakland (30-42).

The A's beat the Angels for the second time in seven meetings this season.

Mike Trout, Johnny Giavotella and Andrelton Simmons each had two hits for the Angels.

NOTES: Albert Pujols was in the Angels' starting lineup after missing the previous two games with a sore left hamstring and left ankle. He started as the designated hitter. The Angels are 17-29 when Pujols starts at DH, 13-12 when he starts at first base. ... Before RHP Kendall Graveman won Thursday, the Athletics' starting pitchers were 0-9 with 5.29 ERA over the previous 17 games. ... Angels 2016 first-round draft pick 1B/C Matt Thaiss (University of Virginia) made his professional debut Wednesday with short-season Class A Orem and went 3-for-5 with two doubles and a three-run, go-ahead home run in the ninth inning. ... A's manager Bob Melvin said before the game that LHP Eric Surkamp, initially scheduled to start Saturday's game, will start Friday instead.