The Yankees are convinced Devin Williams 2.0 as closer will be better than the first iteration.

Indications from Williams’ first appearance since re-taking the job from Luke Weaver, who is out for at least the next month with a left hamstring strain, were mixed.

Brought on in the ninth Tuesday night to protect a 3-1 lead provided in the seventh after Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Anthony Volpe hit back-to-back homers, Williams retired pinch hitter Kyle Manzardo on a soft fly ball to left on a 1-and-2, 95-mph fastball.

Carlos Santana, after falling behind 1-and-2, fouled off four straight pitches, then won the nine-pitch at-bat by cracking a double to left-center on a 94-mph fastball. Williams struck out Gabriel Arias swinging at one of his “airbender” changeups for the second out.

But pinch hitter Daniel Schneemann chopped a seeing-eye grounder between second baseman DJ LeMahieu and first baseman Paul Goldschmidt for an RBI single that made it 3-2 and had the Yankee Stadium crowd, rough on Williams the first month of the season, grumbling. There was a bit more grumbling when Schneemann stole second but Williams, the tying run now in scoring position, got Bo Naylor to fly to left on a full-count changeup to end it, earning him his sixth save and first since April 17.

“I feel really good. I feel confident,” Williams said after the 30-pitch outing. “I felt really good tonight. Santana put up a really good at-bat there, [they] found some holes. But I felt good overall.”

When Williams was replaced in late April by Weaver he had a 10.00 ERA, the biggest issue, he said, finding consistent command.

The righthander seemed to find that after his demotion, posting scoreless outings in 13 of 15 appearances going into Tuesday night.

“He looked like Devin Williams,” said one rival NL scout who has seen Williams’ last handful of outings, including Tuesday’s. “I saw him when he was going good (with the Brewers) and he’s looked like that pitcher the last few weeks. Nothing alarming. Stuff looked good.”

After Tuesday’s game, Boone said of Williams: “I think he’s in a really good place and, I think, throwing the ball the way that will allow him to excel in the [closer’s] role.”

Before Wednesday’s game, Boone referenced the pitcher’s command as well.

“He’s dictating counts better, better strike throwing,” Boone said. “Fastball’s been better at times, I feel like the changeup, pretty much most of the year has been really good, the depth on it. I thought he executed a lot even last night. Obviously they made him work and he threw a lot of pitches. I thought Santana really put a good at-bat on him to extend the at-bat where Devin made some good pitches. But I just feel like his fastball-changeup combination right is in a good place, and the strike throwing’s been good, so with that is going to come success.”

When the Yankees dealt for Williams, who pitched the previous six years with the Brewers, earning two All-Star bids with them, there were questions about how the closer would adapt to all that comes with pitching in New York. And that isn’t just about hyper-intensity that comes from media and fans that often treat each day as, in words spoken many times by GM Brian Cashman over the years, “162 one-game seasons.”

There are the getting-used-to logistics that come with living in the New York area, whether it’s in one of the surrounding suburbs or, in Williams’ case, residing in the city.

“I’m in a routine now. I was still figuring it out at the beginning of the year,” Williams said. “It’s a big adjustment to make, just in life. Like getting to the field every day, you have to figure out when you have to leave to be there when I want to be there, and things like that. So I’m in a good rhythm right now.”

Boone said leftfielder Jasson Dominguez, who left Sunday night’s game at Dodger Stadium with a left thumb contusion, planned to take some swings in the cage Wednesday afternoon and, depending how that went, might have been a possibility to pinch hit or pinch run later in the night. “When I asked him earlier in the day, he said he felt better today,” Boone said, later saying he would have used Dominguez as a pinch runner Tuesday night had the situation arose. “Hopefully we’re trending in the right direction.”