After rough first month with the Yankees, reliever Devin Williams takes a step forward

BALTIMORE — Redemption won’t come all at once for Devin Williams. But on Monday in Baltimore, the beleaguered Yankees reliever took a modest step in the right direction.

A clean eighth inning, in a 4-3 Yankees loss, offered Williams a moment of normalcy in a season that has been anything but simple. Upon conjuring a harmless pop-up to finish his scoreless frame, Williams strolled back to the bench alongside his teammates, not apart from them. A wave of high-fives and “atta boys” greeted him in the dugout.

It was the type of dominant, ho-hum scene Yankees brass must’ve envisioned when they traded for Williams in December. Armed with a slow heartbeat and an untouchable, unicorn changeup dubbed…