Ubaldo Jimenez and Steve Clevenger comment after the Orioles' loss to Cleveland

Ubaldo Jimenez needed 99 pitches today to get just 12 outs. Not what he had in mind in going against his former Cleveland Indians teammates. Jimenez walked five on the day and two in the fifth inning when Cleveland scored five to break the 0-0 tie and knock him from the game on its way to a 9-0 win. "My first mistake was walking the leadoff guy," Jimenez said. "That got me in trouble. Base hit. Another little groundball base hit, but the big thing was walking the leadoff guy. "I felt like my fastball was kind of good. I was able to get it down in the strike zone and it was moving a lot. But I guess I was missing. "I think I threw a lot of good pitches, but I'm not the umpire. He didn't like it and there is nothing we can do right now." Jimenez threw 52 pitches over the first two innings, but then just 24 over the next two. But that put him at 76 pitches going into the fifth. He said maybe an elevated pitch count caught up to him in that frame. "Well, the first thing is that you are going to be a little bit tired, because you were throwing too many pitches in the first four innings," he said as he falls to 2-6 with an ERA of 4.98. Jimenez has an ERA of 12.46 in the fifth inning this year, his highest in any inning. After pitching to an ERA of 0.46 in his first three May starts, Jimenez has given up 10 runs over nine innings his last two outings. "It looks like I am just missing a little bit of the strike zone," he said. "I'm not that far away, but I'm missing. I'm falling behind in counts and getting myself in trouble. Today, it was walking the leadoff guy." Jimenez, who is now 0-4 with an ERA of 4.13 at home, said he was not too emotional or fired up in pitching against former teammates this afternoon. "No, not at all. I started good," he said. "I didn't even think about who I was facing. Once you get to the mound, you are trying to get them out. It doesn't matter who it is." This was the Orioles right-hander's shortest start of the year and it was a battle from the start, catcher Steve Clevenger said. "He just didn't have it today. His command wasn't there. The strike zone was a little tight. But that is baseball and it's going to happen from time to time," Clevenger said. "He was just missing and we didn't make the adjustment. He is going to learn from this with his next bullpen session and he's going to get better next time." Meanwhile, Tribe starter Corey Kluber pitched seven scoreless innings as the Orioles were shut out for the fourth time. "He was throwing the ball well. He was mixing in all his pitches and throwing everything for strikes. Had a good curveball today, good slider. He commanded the zone and was successful today," Clevenger said. Kluber improved to 3-0 with a 2.04 ERA with seven walks and 48 strikeouts over 35 1/3 innings this month. The Orioles had scored 38 runs on 63 hits in their last five games, but were held to eight hits today. This was Cleveland's first shutout of the Orioles since Sept. 27, 2009. The Orioles fall to 5-12 in day games, the worst mark in the majors.