Having become more familiar than they would like to life without Aaron Judge in the lineup, the Yankees have become more of an all-or-nothing offensive team this season. 

The results haven’t been great. They started Saturday having lost three in a row and sitting in fourth place in the AL East for the first time in more than six weeks. Then they went out and played like the team that was expected to contend a division title. 

The Yankees hit three home runs — including the first multi-homer game from Giancarlo Stanton in more than a year — and got another solid performance from Gerrit Cole in a 6-3 win over the Cubs in The Bronx. 

No one embodies the Yankees’ all-or-nothing issues more than Stanton and Josh Donaldson, who on Saturday became the first player in the modern era (since 1900) to hit 10 home runs within his first 14 hits of a season, according to Elias Sports Bureau. 

The power display from the Yankees came on a day that began with manager Aaron Boone defending what has been a disappointing offense, especially with Judge on the injured list. 

Saying he remained “confident” in his hitters, Boone acknowledged the need for improvement. 

“I hope on the other side, they get a little hot together,’’ Boone said of the offense prior to the game. “We’re in July, the middle of the season. We have to get it right. We have to figure it out.” 

For at least one day, facing Cubs lefty Drew Smyly, they did. 

After the win, Boone said of the lineup’s at-bats: “They were better across the board.” 

Stanton got them going in the first inning when, with two out, he hit a mammoth, 447-foot solo home run off the top of the mezzanine in left field.

The 118.1-mph shot was just his second homer since June 13. 

“I’ve never seen a ball go up there,’’ Boone said. 

Added Donaldson: “I think it should count for two.’’ 

The Yankees tacked on another run with one out in the second when Donaldson golfed a solo homer into the seats in left.

It was Donaldson’s fourth homer and seventh extra-base hit in 21 career at-bats against Smyly. 

Harrison Bader’s two-run double in the third made it 4-0, which was plenty for Cole, who made no secret of his desire to start the MLB All-Star Game for the American League in Seattle on Tuesday night. 

Cole called that possibility a “dream come true.” 

He retired the first five batters he faced before a two-out walk to Christopher Morel in the second inning.

Yan Gomes followed with a flare single to right to give the Cubs runners on first and third for Trey Mancini.

But Cole retired Mancini on a hard shot to second to preserve the one-run lead. 

Miles Mastrobuoni doubled off Cole to open the third inning and moved to third base on Mike Tauchman’s grounder.

Nico Hoerner then hit a hard comebacker toward the mound, which Cole grabbed at with his bare hand.

The ball deflected off his hand and Gleyber Torres made the play, but Mastrobuoni scored. 

Cole waved off medical attention and got out of the inning. 

Stanton and the Yankees piled on in the fifth inning, when he hit his ninth homer of the year, poking it off the foul pole just over the short porch in right against right-hander Michael Rucker. 

Stanton’s first multi-homer game since May of last season buoyed a Yankees offense that had been shut out for the fourth time this season on Friday night, and had scored just four runs in the previous three games. 

“You look at the ability in here and unfortunately, for a stretch since Judge has been out, we haven’t gotten on a roll and all started to produce at the same time,’’ Donaldson said. “I definitely think we’re capable of it. It’s just being consistent on a day-to-day basis.” 

Cole was excellent until the eighth inning, when he allowed a two-run homer to Tauchman, a former Yankee. Cole’s 7 ¹/₃-inning outing matched his second-longest of the season. 

He improved to 5-0 with a 2.13 ERA in eight starts following Yankees losses. The Yankees have won all eight of those games.