Three takeaways from the Yankees' series win over the Baltimore Orioles

The Yankees scored three times in the bottom of the eighth inning on Sunday for a 4-2 comeback victory and series win over Baltimore at the Stadium. It’s their third victory in four games since a six-game losing streak.

A number of things that were going wrong now appear to be headed in a better direction as they embark on a three-game series against the Reds at Great American Ball Park.

Here are three takeaways from the series with the Orioles:

1. The team as a whole is out of its offensive malaise, but Aaron Judge isn’t

After a seven-game stretch in which the Yankees scored seven runs, they’ve come out of it in the past four games. They have batted .331 in that span and averaged 11.3 hits and 5.8 runs.

Judge, however, lately hasn’t been the run-producing machine that has made him the frontrunner for another American League MVP award.

Judge went 4-for-10 against the Orioles, but in his past 11 games, he is batting .189 — dropping his season average from .394 to .367 — with 20 strikeouts, two homers, two RBIs and three runs scored.

The trip to Cincinnati could help. He’s played three games there and batted .545 with a home run and four RBIs.

2. Aaron Boone is juggling and the players are helping

The return of Giancarlo Stanton from the injured list to his DH job has had an impact on a handful of players who had been staying in the lineup by taking turns as the DH. Boone has been doing a nice juggling act to put out the best lineup each day. However, we’ve seen some unanticipated things since Stanton’s return. Paul Goldschmidt was out of the starting lineup on consecutive days, Ben Rice started a game at catcher and Jasson Dominguez’s playing time has shrunk.

Boone says he has the right team to pull this feat off.

“The one good thing is the communication between us [and] those six guys,” he said. “For the most part, they’re bought in. Obviously [they’re] all good players and playing well and deserve to play. So [you] understand that it’s not a perfect scenario, but . . . to every person in there, there’s that genuine thought of winning.”

3. Devin Williams got his mojo back and has kept it

When the Yankees acquired Williams from Milwaukee in the offseason, they anticipated getting the lights-out closer he had been. It started badly for him; he had a 10.03 ERA after his first 14 games and lost the role to Luke Weaver. Since then, however, he has rounded into form and maintained it.

In the 18 games since, he is 2-0 with six saves in six chances and has a 1.62 ERA with 24 strikeouts in 16 2⁄3 innings. He has allowed no runs in his last six outings.

By Roger Rubin

roger.rubin@newsday.com@rogrubin

Roger Rubin returned to Newsday in 2018 to write about high schools, colleges and baseball following 20 years at the Daily News. A Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 2011, he has covered 13 MLB postseasons and 14 NCAA Final Fours.