Chicago White Sox (8-9) at Baltimore Orioles (9-10), 7:05 p.m. (ET)
(SportsNetwork.com) - Ubaldo Jimenez tries to bounce back from his first loss of the season on Monday when the Baltimore Orioles start a three-game series with the Chicago White Sox at Camden Yards.
Jimenez had been 1-0 through his first two starts and hadn't allowed a run in either outing. However, his luck ran out against the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday, as they reached him for four runs and six hits in five innings.
He also walked three batters in the fourth inning.
"I was trying to be too fine," Jimenez said. "I was trying to nibble too much around the corners and throwing too many breaking balls and that made me fall behind."
Jimenez has faced the White Sox 10 times and is 2-3 against them with a 5.01 ERA.
Baltimore took two of three from the Boston Red Sox over the weekend thanks to an offensive explosion in Sunday's finale. Chris Davis homered and knocked in three runs and Delmon Young drove in five, as the Orioles hammered Boston, 18-7.
Davis, Young, Jimmy Paredes and Reynaldo Navarro each finished with three hits and the Orioles banged out 20 as a team. They won the last two games of the series on the heels of a five-game losing streak.
"It's a game we needed because we were playing sloppy baseball for a week or so," said Young. "It was good to get out of the rut."
The offensive outburst allowed Bud Norris (1-2) to pick up his first win of the season despite giving up three runs, seven hits and three walks in 6 2/3 innings.
Troubling, though, is the fact that the Orioles have yet to win a game in which they've scored fewer than four runs this season.
Chicago, meanwhile, won twice on Sunday, as Conor Gillaspie hit the go-ahead two-run single in a five-run sixth inning which propelled the White Sox over Kansas City by a 5-3 count.
Adam LaRoche and Tyler Flowers also knocked in runs during the deciding frame for the White Sox, who swept the brief set on Sunday thanks to a 3-2 victory in the completion of Friday's suspended contest to win this rain-shortened three-game series.
John Danks (1-2) lasted six full frames and allowed three runs on five hits while striking out eight. David Robertson closed things out on a scoreless ninth for his third save.
"We came to the ballpark to win two and we got it done," Danks said.
On Monday, Chicago will hand the ball to righty Hector Noesi, who is still looking for his first win of the season. Noesi lost to Cleveland on Tuesday, as he surrendered four runs and four hits - two home runs - in 5 2/3 innings, dropping him to 0-2 to go along with a 5.23 ERA.
"Really, the only thing that happened to him were the two homers early in that game," said Chicago manager Robin Ventura of Noesi. "I thought, as far as command and things like that, he was a lot better than his first one here."