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It could be ring season this spring for Mira Costa High teams.

It was not an injury-free spring for the pitching staff.

Thus has been the theme of the spring for Rushing, the club’s 2022 first-round pick and 2024 Minor League Player of the Year.

But that counted as progress since the outing was the longest of the spring for Snell, who made 67 pitches, striking out five, walking one and hitting 97 mph with his fastball.

It was the latest encouraging step this spring for Yamamoto, who manager Dave Roberts said this week is “considerably ahead” of where he was last year — when Yamamoto still was getting acclimated to the Dodgers after signing a record $325-million contract out of Japan.