The Orioles have one more game against the Dodgers this afternoon before heading to Anaheim for the final stage of a West Coast trip that isn’t adding muscle to their status as playoff contenders. They’ve done some flexing, though.

Consistency keeps slipping through their fingers. No winning streak has stretched longer than three games.

Patience is wearing thin.

Infield coach Miguel Cairo expressed confidence last month that the Orioles would become more consistent, emphasizing his point by saying, “That’s for sure.”

“We’re gonna be fine. I know the players that we have here, they showed resiliency, and we’re gonna click,” he said.

That clicking sound threatens to be the postseason hanging up on them. The Orioles remain in fourth place and began yesterday just as close to last as third.

“You don’t want to win the World Series in the first month of the season,” Cairo said. “It takes time to get in a rhythm. You guys can see a little bit of what we can do when we play the game the right way. We can talk about all the injuries that we had, but the guys we have right now, they show they’re resilient, they show they want to win. And we’ve just got to take one day at a time. We cannot be worried about August, September, June, July. We’ve got to take care of today. … Do the little things to win games.”

The big things also work.

Gunnar Henderson began last night ranking third on the team with 70 hits, behind Pete Alonso’s 72 and Taylor Ward’s 71. His 16 home runs trailed Alonso by one. But he was slashing .223/.292/.424 in 76 games.

Henderson’s on-base percentage improved from .283 in March/April and .262 in May to .360 this month, but he was 15-for-63 (.238).

Jackson Holliday was batting .207/.295/.402 in 28 games since his reinstatement from the injured list. Colton Cowser produced some clutch home runs and much better at-bats but was hitting .224/.317/.378 in 66 games. Coby Mayo, with his playing time diminished by Blaze Alexander’s extended hot stretch, was hitting .196/.259/.380 in 59 games. Leody Taveras was slashing .175/.200/.263 with 19 strikeouts in his last 63 plate appearances.

Taveras and Cowser singled last night to begin the second inning, and Coby Mayo’s fielder’s choice grounder gave the Orioles a 1-0 lead. Taveras singled and scored in the fourth.

Tyler O’Neill, whose throwing error in the ninth inning Friday night concluded a 6-5 loss, was hitting .184/.277/.272 in 46 games.

“The biggest thing with him is just trying to stay short to the ball and really improve his direction,” said hitting coach Dustin Lind. “The early part of the season, the swing was just a little bit long. It was taking him some time to catch up to stuff, and now he’s just been much more direct point A to point B. And it’s really helped him to kind of cover more pitches in more areas of the zone.”

The challenges for O’Neill extend beyond the physical aspect. The struggles can weigh on a player mentally, especially after three stops on the injured list last season limited O’Neill to only 54 games after the Orioles signed him to a three-year, $49.5 million contract.

O’Neill was 8-for-30 with four doubles this month before last night. He went 7-for-20 in a five-game stretch before taking an 0-for-4 Wednesday in Seattle.

“Obviously, it wears on everybody,” Lind said.

“Everybody wants to go out and play well, and when you’re doing it in front of so many people every single night, obviously there’s a little bit more of a microscope on you. And so, for him to be able to kind of get through this and kind of be coming out the other side of it shows the mental toughness that he has, and kind of that fortitude he brings that he brings every single day when he comes into the cage.”

*Dylan Beavers played center field last night for Double-A Chesapeake on his injury rehab assignment, and he went 0-for-3 with two walks.

Beavers is 0-for-4 with four walks in two games with the Baysox. He hasn’t played for the Orioles since May 10 due to an oblique strain.

Beavers was 7-for-19 with four doubles and four walks in his last six starts before the injury.

Chesapeake’s Joseph Dzierwa, 22, is making early noise as a favorite for the organization’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year award.

Dzierwa allowed one run and two hits with eight strikeouts in six innings to lower his ERA to 2.48 with an 0.95 WHIP in six appearances. He’s walked six and struck out 41 in 32 2/3 innings.

The second-round pick out of Michigan State had a 2.21 ERA and 0.811 WHIP in eight starts with High-A Frederick, and he struck out 50 in 40 2/3 innings.

*Heston Kjerstad hit his second home run last night with Triple-A Norfolk, and he also singled twice and drove in three runs. He’s batting .282 with a .698 OPS.