Schoop punctuates last game before WBC with homer (O's fall 4-1)

ORIOLES QUICK WRAP

Score: Yankees 4, Orioles 1

Recap: Ubaldo Jiménez allowed one run and three hits in two innings, and he threw 17 of 29 pitches for strikes. ... Jonathan Schoop, playing his last game before leaving for the WBC, led off the third with a long home run to left field. ... Vidal Nuño tossed two scoreless innings. Left-handers Donnie Hart and Tanner Scott each struck out two in a scoreless inning. ... Oliver Drake surrendered a tie-breaking three-run homer to Thairo Estrada in the ninth.

Need to know: Mark Trumbo, starting at first base, failed to backhand Austin Romine's bouncer in the first inning, and Romine later scored on a 6-5 putout. ... The Orioles twice retired Yankees runners trying to go from second to third. ... Adam Jones made a sensational diving catch in right-center field to rob Jorge Mateo and save a run in the second.

On deck: Tuesday at Phillies in Clearwater, 1:05 p.m.

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SARASOTA, Fla. - Parker Bridwell rebounded from the back-to-back home runs he surrendered in Bradenton on Saturday by tossing a scoreless inning today against the Yankees. He allowed a one-out double, but the game is still tied 1-1.

Left-hander Donnie Hart retired the side in order in the seventh with two strikeouts. Left-hander Jed Bradley walked a batter in a scoreless fifth.

Jonathan Schoop will leave camp with a bang, his long home run to left field in the third giving the Orioles their only run. Left fielder Aaron Hicks took a couple of steps back but never turned toward the fence.

Schoop is 3-for-8 with two doubles and a home run this spring. He leaves on Tuesday to join Team Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic.

The power he showed today could lift a jet off the ground.

"Just want to get my timing down and I put a good swing on it," he said.

"I feel like I have enough games in. I think we have two more exhibition games down there to get ready. Then, we've got to play three games down there before the tournament starts, but I'm ready. I feel good."

Check back with him after the flight to Korea.

"Oh, it's real exciting. Not so much with the flight. It's a long flight. But it's exciting for us to play together," he said.

"Since I was little, I was playing against those guys. (Jurickson) Profar, Didi Gregorius, (Andrelton) Simmons. And my brother's there, too. That's going to be fun for the country. I'm looking forward to it."

Schoop is collecting advice on how to make it through such a long flight. Survival tactics.

"(Hyun Soo) Kim told me don't go to sleep right away. Watch a movie and then sleep. Watch a movie and sleep," Schoop said.

"A lot of people told me it's going to be difficult, but tomorrow if I put that in my head it's going to be worse. I'm going to go in there and watch a movie and enjoy.

"I'll eat some snacks and play chess on the plane, too, so I'll get better and when I come back I can beat Brady (Anderson) and Manny (Machado) and (Wayne) Kirby."

The perfect WBC script would include Schoop playing Machado's Dominican Republic team in the finals. Orioles teammates and close friends on opposite sides. The trash talking would be epic.

"It would be exciting because we play with each other since the minor leagues and now we can play against each other," Schoop said. "The last time we played against each other is, I think, in the Futures Game. It would be exciting. I'm looking forward to it."

Update: Oliver Drake surrendered a three-run homer to Thairo Estrada with no outs in the ninth to break a 1-1 tie.