Orioles manager Buck Showalter jokingly asked Ubaldo Jimenez after his last outing if he had switched uniforms because he wasn’t the same guy Showalter had grown accustomed to watching every fifth day before the All-Star break.
Jimenez had allowed seven runs in each of his first two starts since the break and hadn’t gotten through five innings after posting a 2.81 ERA in the unofficial first half of the season. And after a first inning that saw him serve up a two-run blast and load the bases with two outs, it didn’t look promising that first-half Ubaldo was back.