Ubaldo Jimenez pitches eight scoreless innings as O's top Tribe in Game 1

Ubaldo Jimenez delivered a very strong outing against his former team. Manny Machado and Jimmy Paredes continued their hot hitting. It added up to a 4-0 win for the Orioles over Cleveland in the opener of the day-night doubleheader as a sellout crowd of 45,675 looked on at Camden Yards.

The game was the Orioles' 5,000th regular season win since moving to Baltimore in 1954.

Jimenez gave up just four singles over eight innings as he improved to 7-3 with an ERA of 3.09. He did not walk a batter and struck out seven, throwing 109 pitches, 74 for strikes. The Indians only got one runner to second base against him, and the Orioles are 9-6 in his 15 starts. This was the Orioles' fifth shutout.

The Orioles had just one seven-inning outing from a starter over their last 25 games before today and just five outings of six innings or more the previous 20 games.

The Orioles are now a season-high six games over .500 at 40-34. They have won six of seven, 15 of 19 and 17 of their past 22 games. They are 9-1 in the last 10 home games.

Paredes went 2-for-2 with a double, homer and two walks. In this series, he is 5-for-6 with three doubles, a homer, four runs and two RBIs. He's now batting .326.

Paredes gave the Orioles the lead today in the last of the third. Caleb Joseph singled with one out and reached second on a wild pitch. Paredes then hit a two-out, two-run homer on the first pitch from Trevor Bauer for the 2-0 lead. He hit No. 9 on a 92 mph fastball. The Orioles lead the American League with 18 first-pitch homers. The homer was Paredes' 12th hit in his last 22 at-bats. He is also now batting .667 (12-for-18) with runners in scoring position and two outs.

The O's added to that lead in sixth when Machado led off the inning with a solo homer to left-center. It was his 15th, a new career high for Machado, who has a nine-game hitting streak. Paredes followed with a double and later scored on a Chris Davis double for a 4-0 lead. It was Davis' team-leading 44th RBI.

During his hitting streak, Machado, who went 2-for-4, is batting .436 (17-for-39) with four doubles, two homers and eight RBIs.

Tonight at 7:05 p.m., the Orioles send Chris Tillman (5-7, 6.22 ERA) to the mound against right-hander Toru Murata, who will be making his major league debut.