Yankees closer Luke Weaver throws live batting practice

The Yankees lineup may be anemic of late, but the bullpen is seeing positive signs.

Luke Weaver threw live batting practice on Tuesday before the Yankees’ 4-0 loss to the Angels in The Bronx.

He threw around 20 pitches against J.C. Escarra and Oswald Peraza.

It’s the first big positive step for the reliever, who strained his hamstring on June 1.

“It felt great,” Weaver said after the outing. “Obviously knocking a little bit of the cobwebs off. Trying to get the mind, trying to get the intensity of, you know, a teeny bit of adrenaline. Hard to say the adrenaline is flowing the same way a game would. But, heart rate is definitely up and the velo is good. All pitches are moving well.”

Weaver, 31, threw his second bullpen session last week and is past his activation date after being on the 15-day injured list, but has been slowly ramping up to avoid reinjury.

He said he no longer feels anything in his hamstring and is seemingly ahead of the four-to-six week timeline to return.

Aaron Boone added the session was “excellent” and pending how Weaver feels in the aftermath, the manager hopes to be in a position to make a decision in the next two days.

“Any day that I’ve done anything, it has yielded great results. Recovery has been very minimal as far as any soreness or anything negative,” Weaver said.

Before his injury, Weaver had a 1.05 ERA across 24 games and 25 ²/₃ innings.

He allowed just three runs and seven walks while tallying 24 strikeouts.

If another live batting practice is needed, Weaver’s goal in these sessions is to align his body and mind, making sure everything is in sync.

“Just trying not to compensate. Trying to make sure that the adrenaline matches the intensity,” he said. “Like the marriage of the body and the mind being on the same page again. If I’m trying to throw it 100 percent and the body’s 90, obviously that’s a little bit of a misbalance. So, it’s trying to put two and two together. And that is done by driving the ball to certain spots — pushing it with two strikes and end with the heater, being able to get the cutter in the glove side, changeup down and away. Just certain lanes that are allowing me to do a good job out there on the mound during a normal game.”