CHICAGO (AP) -- Wrigley Field's ivy was winter brown, players wore hoods to protect their ears against numbing temperatures and a light snow began to fall in the ninth inning.

Cold? Not the Chicago Cubs. Home had never felt better.

Putting a tiring and trying trip to Tokyo, St. Louis and Cincinnati behind them, the Cubs came back to Chicago.

	Shane Andrews, right, set the table with a three-run homer in the ninth inning that tied the game 3-3.

And then, in dramatic fashion, they came back against the Atlanta Braves, scoring four runs in the ninth inning Monday for a 4-3 victory in their home opener.

"I don't think I've ever had an opening day with snow. It was fun," said Shane Andrews, who hit a game-tying, three-run homer off Kerry Ligtenberg. Pinch-hitter Jeff Reed then won it with a single.

"The crowd kept us in it," Andrews said. "We played some tough games and had some tough losses. The trip was awful long. We left spring training it seems like a month ago."

Andrews, whose throwing error allowed the tying run to score in Sunday's 8-7, 11-inning loss at Cincinnati, drove a 1-2 pitch from Ligtenberg into the left-field bleachers for his third homer of the season.

Ligtenberg (0-1), the Braves' closer until John Rocker's suspension ends April 17, then allowed a single to Damon Buford and was replaced by Luis Rivera.

Joe Girardi sacrificed and Reed slapped a single down the left-field line, sending the Cubs out of their dugout to celebrate.

"I just got the pitch up and Andrews got it out," Ligtenberg said. "I'm not really happy with the results."

The Cubs had lost six of seven games after opening the season with a win over the Mets in Tokyo on March 29.

"When we were in Japan, I told the guys it didn't feel like opening day for me. This one did," Reed said.

"We didn't play that badly on the road, but we didn't pull out any wins. We didn't get the big hit or make the big pitch. We hadn't been having a whole lot of fun. Today we did."

Mark Guthrie (1-1), who pitched the top of the ninth, got the victory in Don Baylor's debut as Cubs manager at Wrigley.

"This club's been grinding it out from day one in Tokyo," Baylor said. "There were some agonizing and excruciating losses for us. When it happens in the bottom of the ninth, it was pretty exciting for everyone on the bench. To snatch it back from the Braves is quite nice. "

It didn't appear the Cubs would score at all.

Kevin Millwood blanked them for seven innings on a day with temperatures in the 30s and a cold wind off Lake Michigan gusting up to 21 mph.

Mike Remlinger pitched a scoreless eighth, but after Mark Grace worked him for a walk to start the ninth, Ligtenberg came on and walked pinch-hitter Glenallen Hill. That set the stage for Andrews.

Atlanta's Chipper Jones said Grace's walk "set the tone for the whole inning."

"There wasn't a walk the whole game, then all of a sudden, it's a whole different strike zone. It's a fluke," he said. "After the pitches to Grace weren't called, you kind of had to feel the momentum (change)."

Ligtenberg, who missed all of last season after elbow surgery, had saved games in his previous two appearances this season.

The Braves bats were hot early, however. They took a 3-0 against Jon Lieber as Andres Galarraga hit his fourth homer, a two-run shot in the fourth.

Jones, who credited Baylor for helping him win last year's NL MVP when Baylor was the Braves' hitting coach, also homered. He reached out and poked a solo homer into the basket in left center in the first.

Millwood mowed the Cubs down in the first five innings, allowing a soft single by Grace in the second and an infield single by Sammy Sosa in the fourth, while facing just 16 batters.

In the sixth, Lieber, Eric Young and Ricky Gutierrez all singled to load the bases. But Sosa hit into a 4-6-3 double play on a 3-2 pitch.

Lieber allowed three runs and seven hits in eight innings.

Game notes
Four of Galarraga's six hits have been homers. ... Grace was honored before the game for leading the 1990s in hits and doubles, and presented with a flag that will be flown on the roof at Wrigley Field. His parents attended the ceremony. ... The Cubs have won the regular-season series against the Braves the last two years, capturing five of seven last season and six of nine in 1998. Atlanta swept the Cubs in the playoffs that year 3-0. ... Despite football-like conditions, announced attendance was 38,655.