Davis crushes HR onto another field in Orioles loss

SARASOTA, Fla. - Ubaldo Jimenez allowed six runs while retiring just one batter in the first inning as the Baltimore Orioles lost to the Atlanta Braves 11-4 on Wednesday.

Jimenez, who won 12 games to lead the team in 2015, gave up three hits and walked three before being lifted.

The Braves scored another run off Odrisamer Despaigne in the first and another in the second to take an 8-0 lead.

''He got his pitches in. We were hoping to go get two out of him. He just happened to get his pitch count in in one inning - actually a third of an inning,'' manager Buck Showalter said.

''The one I'm interested in is his first start in Baltimore. That's when it starts.''

Atlanta rookie Mallex Smith had four extra-base hits - two triples in the first, a home run in the fifth and a double in the seventh.

The Orioles scored four runs in the second off Aaron Blair, who is competing for one of Atlanta's final starting spots. Chris Davis hit a long home run to center and Jonathan Schoop had a two-run shot to left.

Davis' home run was hit far beyond the center field fence, and ended up near second base on one of the back practice fields.

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''If I execute my pitch, that doesn't happen,'' Blair said. ''To a guy with that kind of power, that ends up a long, long way away.''

- With files from theScore