Adley Rutschman doubled from one side of the plate yesterday and homered from the other. Vance Honeycutt homered for the third time in three at-bats this spring and he isn’t in major league camp. Coby Mayo made a couple more impressive plays at third base, including a diving backhand stop on the line before throwing late, and he seemed to enjoy his surprise inning at shortstop.

Only one pitcher registered a clean inning, however, and he struck out the side.

Rico Garcia is doing everything necessary to make the club.

Garcia has logged three scoreless innings in his three appearances, with no hits, one walk and four strikeouts. He got Atlanta’s José Azocar yesterday on a curveball after starting him with a 93 mph fastball and following with his slider. Jim Jarvis got ahead 1-0, took a 94.6 mph fastball for a strike and whiffed on a changeup and curveball. Alex Lodise got ahead 1-0 and Garcia went slider, slider, 94.3 mph fastball to strike him out looking.

The Orioles selected Garcia on waivers from the Mets on Aug. 5 and he posted a 2.84 ERA in 20 appearances. Opponents were 0-for-10 against him with the bases loaded, with nine of those at-bats coming while he pitched for the Orioles.

Perhaps the most memorable was the Aug. 19 game in Boston, when he inherited a bases-loaded, no-out jam from Kade Strowd and struck out Jarren Duran, Trevor Story and Masataka Yoshida. The Orioles won 4-3 in 11 innings.

They signed Garcia to a $900,000 contract on Oct. 30. He’d make $225,000 in the minors.

The way he’s pitching, and how he handled some high-leverage situations last season, is giving him an edge for one of the final bullpen spots.

Ryan Helsley, Andrew Kittredge, Tyler Wells, Yennier Cano and left-handers Keegan Akin and Dietrich Enns fall in the locks-to-likely range. I don’t feel the need to point out any longer that Wells would have to get bumped from the rotation. He made another one-inning appearance yesterday, going scoreless again, and the plan for him seems obvious.

Cano has options and allowed a run yesterday, but it came on a ground ball single, ground out, balk and RBI groundout.

He must have flinched on the balk. I honestly didn’t notice it.

I keep putting Albert Suárez in my bullpen as a long man. He’s made only one appearance so far, in a start, and allowed one run and three hits in two innings.

Toss in Garcia and that’s an eight-man ‘pen, as long as the Orioles don’t go with a six-man rotation. But I could be short a left-hander, which puts guys like Grant Wolfram, Eric Torres, Josh Walker and maybe Cade Povich in play.

Right-handers Cameron Foster, Anthony Nunez, Yaramil Hiraldo, Jose Espada, Jackson Kowar, Chayce McDermott, Hans Crouse and Enoli Paredes also are in the mix. McDermott surrendered three home runs yesterday on three pitches in the eighth inning.

“Yeah, he gave up three homers on three pitches, all on off-speed,” manager Craig Albernaz said afterward in his media scrum, “but the coolest thing about that was after the third one, the next hitter, fastball for a strike and then he struck him out on three pitches. And to me, that’s what you need.

“You’re gonna give up homers, but for him to go right back and pound the strike zone and get the punchout, that says a lot about him.”

Foster retired the side in order in the fifth inning Thursday on three fly balls, and he won a 12-pitch battle with Detroit’s Hao-Yu Lee. The 10th pitch was clocked at 97.9 mph. He went 1-2-3 with two strikeouts, against Austin Slater and Kerry Carpenter, in his first outing against the Tigers, and he also was 97-plus mph.

“The past couple weeks it’s been about that, and I’m just trying to stay there and hopefully get a little bit higher than that. But yeah, it’s where I’d like to be,” Foster said recently of his velocity.

“They’re really smart about that here. It’s just where how many days off I have and all the rest. They know what they’re doing, so it’s been helpful for me.”

When I asked Foster about the input he received after his first appearance, he said, “They seemed to like it a lot. With the velo and the shapes, everything was where it needs to be. I think there’s still room to improve on living in the zone and where to expand, but it’s just next time out, just play with that.”

The Orioles acquired Foster from the Mets in the Gregory Soto deadline trade. He appeared in 13 games with Triple-A Norfolk and allowed six earned runs with eight walks and 23 strikeouts in 16 innings.

There might be room for him on Opening Day, but the competition is fierce and president of baseball operations Mike Elias could add to it later in camp.

“I’m taking it day-by-day,” Foster said. “A lot of good arms here. And just trying to put my best foot forward and impress everybody I can, and we’ll see what happens when the season comes around.”