BALTIMORE — Moments after flaring a third-inning single on Wednesday night, Heliot Ramos playfully made a request that is typically reserved for milestones.

Having recorded just his fourth hit since being dealt to the Yankees on Aug. 3, Ramos jokingly asked for the ball. It was a light-hearted acknowledgement of just how much the former Giant, who hit .095 with a .407 OPS over his first 13 games with the Yankees, has struggled.

But manager Aaron Boone has repeatedly said that Ramos has run into “some tough luck” as a Yankee, an assessment supported by some underlying quality of contact metrics. On Thursday, however, good fortune found Ramos in the third inning, as the left fielder crushed an RBI double off the corner of Camden Yards’ right-field wall.

While Ramos missed a home run by just a few feet, his first RBI as a Yankee capped a three-run frame that set the club up for a 6-1, series-sweeping win over the Orioles.

The victory put the second-place Yankees four games behind the first-place Rays.

Ramos wasn’t the only slumping trade deadline acquisition who contributed on Thursday. Luis García Jr., who hit .216 with a .588 OPS over his first 13 games with the Yanks following a trade from the Nationals, added a solo shot off O’s starter Kyle Bradish in the sixth inning.

García, who led the National League in slugging before getting traded, now has 25 homers on the season. His 413-foot dinger on Thursday was his second with the Yankees.

García wasn’t the last Yankee to take Bradish deep in the sixth, as Spencer Jones followed with an opposite field, bases-empty blast. Meanwhile, Jazz Chisholm Jr., another scuffling hitter, ripped an RBI triple in the eighth.

The Yankees’ first two runs in the third came on a fielder’s choice, which turned into a Gunnar Henderson error, and a single from Ben Rice.

With five runs plated in Wednesday’s win, the Yankees, stuck in an extended offensive dry spell, have now scored at least four runs in consecutive games for the first time since July 9-12.

Their rotation, on the other hand, has been consistently brilliant, and that remained the case on Thursday with Gerrit Cole on the mound.

The ace, now 16 starts removed from Tommy John surgery, held the Orioles to one earned run — a Dylan Beavers homer in the fifth frame — over six innings. Cole totaled four hits, one walk, eight strikeouts and 93 pitches.

Cole’s eighth strikeout gave him 1,015 with the Yankees. That put him ahead of Roger Clemens (1,014) for 12th place on the franchise’s all-time list.

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