Frank Thomas was back in top form in Oakland’s 14-2 slugfest win over the Angels yesterday.

Thomas went three-for-three with an RBI single, a double, an RBI triple, and a walk, before being taken out of the game in the A’s eight-run seventh inning for pinch-runner Chris Denorfia (who later in the inning hit his own RBI single when the batting order cycled through to him).

Half of Oakland’s runs came off of Los Angeles starter Jon Garland, who pitched six innings to give up ten hits, three walks, and seven runs, striking out five along the way. The other half came after Thomas’s leadoff double in the seventh brought in reliever Chris Bootcheck, and the A’s were unleashed: two-run home run, single, (stolen base), walk, single, RBI single, walk, strikeout, popout, RBI single, RBI walk, two-RBI single went the at-bats, and Bootcheck was brought out of the game, having exploded his ERA to 37.80, and his WHIP to 6.00.

Angels catcher Mike Napoli hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth–it was his sixth dinger of the season.