For those fans who were wondering if they were going to get the good Ubaldo Jimenez or the bad one on Thursday night, they got both in the course of the Orioles’ rain-delayed, series-sweeping 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins before 11,142 at Camden Yards.
Jimenez got off to a rocky start, allowing a run in each of the first two innings, but he worked out of another jam in the third and then settled down to overpower the Twins over his last four innings of work. He was charged with just one earned run and piled up nine strikeouts, but would not be in line for the decision until the Orioles scored twice in the bottom of the seventh to take the lead.