Jazz Chisholm Jr. silenced his critics with one swing. Then Aaron Boone made it clear what that meant.

The Yankees spent most of the weekend looking like a team that forgot how to hit. Then Jazz Chisholm Jr. reminded everyone why they traded for him.

Sunday’s series finale against the Dodgers was slipping away. New York had just blown a bases-loaded, no-out chance in the fifth inning. Chisholm himself fouled out to third on a pitch he should have crushed. It was the kind of at-bat that gets a guy benched on some teams. Instead, he got another chance in the eighth.

He crushed a 402-foot homer off Evan Phillips that cleared the wall in right-center and gave the Yankees a 2-1 win they absolutely needed. The Bronx exhaled.

“That’s a bomb right there,” manager Aaron Boone said after the game. “Obviously, we have that inning where we’re bases loaded, up one, no outs, and a chance to really take the game there and aren’t able to come up with a big hit. So, it turned into a real big hit, and where he went there as a lefty, it’s a pretty good shot.”

Boone added a line that felt as much about the team as the player: “Big at-bat. Every win’s precious. Glad we were at least able to salvage one, as we have another really good, hot team coming in.”

The win felt bigger than just one game. The Dodgers had come into Yankee Stadium and treated the series like a showcase. They beat New York twice, showing off the kind of deep roster the Yankees are still trying to build. Losing the third game would have meant a sweep at home against the two-time defending champs. That kind of thing sticks.

Chisholm’s season is a mess. But he keeps showing up in big spots.

The numbers are not good. Chisholm is hitting .224 with 14 homers, 38 RBIs and a .705 OPS. He strikes out a lot. He makes bad decisions on the basepaths. He’s the kind of player who drives fans crazy because the talent is obvious but the consistency isn’t there.

But here’s the weird thing: he has four go-ahead home runs this season. That’s a franchise record for a Yankee second baseman. He keeps making the biggest swing of the game after spending the previous six innings looking lost.

That inconsistency is exactly the problem. The Yankees need him to be more than a hero once a week. They’re 55-44 and about to face a Pittsburgh Pirates team that ranks near the top of baseball in several offensive categories. Without Aaron Judge, this lineup has looked toothless for long stretches. Chisholm is supposed to be one of the guys who changes that.

He’s an impending free agent too. Every good at-bat raises his value, every bad one raises questions about whether the Yankees should even try to keep him.

For one night, none of that mattered. He got the big hit. The Yankees got the win. And Boone let everyone know he saw it.