ANAHEIM, CALIF. — For the second time in as many days, a struggling starting pitcher improbably held the Orioles down in Anaheim. As Sunday's game played out, it became unlikely that any ninth-inning heroics could save them this time. It was long out of reach by then.

Ubaldo Jimenez was shelled in the third inning as the Los Angeles Angels salvaged the final game of the weekend series with a 10-2 win at Angel Stadium.

After managing three hits off Angels starter Matt Shoemaker and needing Matt Wieters' ninth-inning home run to win 3-1 and clinch a series victory Saturday night, the Orioles scraped together five hits off veteran Jered Weaver.

Featuring a fastball that rarely climbed above 84 mph and a 5.76 ERA entering the game, Weaver held the Orioles scoreless through six innings before the offense finally showed life with a single by Nolan Reimold and Jonathan Schoop's eighth home run of the season in the seventh.

“We didn't make any adjustments to what Weaver was doing,” manager Buck Showalter said. “Tough to see the ball out of those rocks today [in center field] and he was working with a, you know, generous strike zone.”

It would have taken a lot more to overcome the deficit Jimenez dug for the Orioles. The struggling right-hander allowed a run in the second before the Angels kept stinging balls into various gaps in the outfield in the third.

By the time shortstop Manny Machado and Schoop, at second, ended the inning on a double play, Jimenez had allowed five runs on two doubles, two singles, a walk and an error. The Orioles trailed 6-0 after three.

“We didn't help matters some,” Showalter said. “We had a double-play ball and about three or four flares that fell in there. Just got away from him. The baseball gods, after two good games, kind of some things fell in our favor, it was just the opposite today.”

Jimenez remained in the game until the sixth inning, when reliever Dylan Bundy took over. Bundy got out of that inning, but allowed four runs in the seventh to end any idea of a comeback. Vance Worley, who walked the only two batters he faced Saturday, pitched a scoreless eighth.

The Orioles' seventh inning was preceded by large stretches of futility, featuring four strikeouts looking and two swinging.

Jimenez hurting: May has been a bad month for Jimenez, whose day finished with six earned runs on eight hits and three walks. He has allowed 24 earned runs on 38 hits in 271/3 innings this month, with 16 walks and 18 strikeouts. He has a 7.81 ERA in May, bringing his season mark to 6.04, with a 1.82 WHIP.

Out at home again: Jimenez' third inning could have been worse if a bizarre trend had not continued for the Angels. For the third straight game, they ran into an out at home plate on a ground ball to an Orioles fielder. Second baseman Johnny Giavotella was thrown out at home for the second out of the third inning on a ground ball to first baseman Chris Davis.

Machado repeats rare bad day: Saturday against Shoemaker was the first time in the career of the slumping Machado that the same pitcher had struck him out three times in one game. Machado improbably repeated that Sunday, striking out three times against Weaver en route to an 0-for-4 on the day. He is four for his past 36, with a dozen strikeouts during that span.

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