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Eddie Matz Of ESPN Believes Ubaldo Jimenez Has Earned Another Start For The O's

Eddie Matz is a senior writer for ESPN.com.

Eddie joined Ed and Steve to talk about the Orioles win over the Padres last night, in particular the pitching performance.

Eddie started by talking about Ubaldo Jimenez's start last night in a win over the Padres saying "the start, they needed that badly it was just one random start in June so you don't want to put too much weight on it...they needed that real bad though." As for more or Ubaldo's performance Eddie said "he wasn't great, but you got the sense that the crowd last night just let out a huge exhale...in Baltimore if a pitcher goes seven innings when they come out you don't know if the fans are standing for you or John Denver but it was for Ubaldo last night."

As to whether or not Ubaldo has earned another start with his performance last night Eddie said "he has to, who else are they going to go with...Mike Wright is not the guy, right now he hasn't earned the right to be back here."

Eddie also talked about the suspension to Manny Machado and how the team and Manny himself were impacted by missing those four games.

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