As the Orioles proceed with their lengthy West Coast trip, making the final stop in Anaheim after winning the series against the Dodgers, they keep trying to put themselves back together.

It’s a tall task for a team that gets chopped down by every imaginable health crisis

Adley Rutschman went on the seven-day concussion injured list retroactive to Friday, and you never know how long a player is going to be out. Brian Roberts and Heston Kjerstad are two unfortunate Orioles examples of huge chunks of a season being lost.

Samuel Basallo has been behind the plate in consecutive games and caught day after night yesterday. And he’s rising to the occasion in other ways, as he must, with two hits Saturday and an RBI single yesterday.

“Sammy is a big piece of what we’re going to do now and also in the future,” manager Craig Albernaz told the media. “So it was great for him to step up and kind of take the reins.”

Second baseman Jackson Holliday came out of Saturday night’s game with groin tightness and didn’t play yesterday. Holliday told the assembled media that he felt the discomfort on Friday, and he was on the bench as a precaution.

Albernaz didn’t have any reason to use Holliday in a blowout win.

Dylan Beavers is three games into his rehab assignment with Double-A Chesapeake, serving as designated hitter yesterday and going 0-for-5. He’s still looking for his first hit, but he’s walked four times.

Cade Povich made his first start and tossed 3 1/3 scoreless innings with one hit and three strikeouts. Thirty-four of his 43 pitches were strikes.

Dean Kremer made his first rehab start with Triple-A Norfolk and allowed one run and two hits in 3 2/3 innings, with two walks and five strikeouts. He threw 66 pitches, 38 for strikes.

The rotation in his current form has allowed 11 earned runs in 37 2/3 innings on the road trip for a 2.63 ERA. The three starters against the Dodgers posted a 2.12 ERA after Brandon Young held them to one run yesterday in five innings.

Young’s streak of quality starts dissolved at five, but the club happily took his five innings of one-run ball and improved to 10-2 in his outings. He’s surrendered three runs or fewer in 11 of 12 starts.

Kyle Bradish, Shane Baz and Trey Gibson are the probables in Anaheim. Bradish allowed one run with a career-high 12 strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings in his last start in Seattle. Baz allowed three runs in seven innings, all of them in the first, and got his ERA down to a season-low 4.04.

Chris Bassitt received a facet injection in his lower back and is supposed to be starting a throwing progression. The next update could arrive later today.

The injection is described as a minimally invasive treatment offering symptomatic relief from back pain caused by inflammation of the facet joints. It isn’t a permanent solution, but the shot suppresses the discomfort and allows for normal activities and physical therapy.

Having Kremer, Bassitt and Povich ready will leave an interesting decision for the club. Gibson seems most vulnerable to being optioned but that’s only one move. Povich also might have to slot into Norfolk’s rotation until another opportunity arises, which could leave Kremer, Bassitt, Bradish, Baz, Young and Trevor Rogers for five spots.

The pitching depth should look a heck of a lot better.

The lineup should have Blaze Alexander in it while he’s on an extreme heater.

Is it possible to be a utility player and an everyday player? He moves around enough that it makes sense.

Alexander is batting .446 (29-for-65) with 11 extra-base hits and a 1.194 OPS since May 25, and his season average is up to .312 with an .809 OPS. He hit .237 with a .688 OPS in 135 games with the Diamondbacks.

“Wherever he’s at in his routine, he’s got it dialed. Where he’s at, comfortability, he’s just locked,” Pete Alonso said in his postgame media scrum.

“Love his attitude. He plays with this childlike joy that shows, and it’s really infectious for the rest of the squad. It’s really special what he’s been able to do, how he’s been able to kind of round us out.”

Show of hands if you thought back in March that Young and Alexander could be two players on the three-man ballot for Most Valuable Oriole.

Or if you believed after Friday night that the Orioles would get back to within two games of the Wild Card and be closer to third place than last. That they’d hold on to beat the Dodgers Saturday and give them a thorough beating the next day.

“For us, now’s the time,” Alonso said. “This has to be the time.”

He isn’t wrong.