If the first five games of the month represented hope for the future, the Yankees delivered a reminder of the immediate past Thursday night.

A reminder that Carlos Rodon has been one of the biggest disappointments in a season in which he has had plenty of competition.

A reminder that the team’s offense, for much of this year, has lacked punch and made any kind of deficit feel insurmountable.

A reminder that Jasson Dominguez will not go undefeated, and a reminder that this season, barring a miracle, is over.

Rodon was booed off the mound and took any momentum with him as the Yankees’ five-game winning streak was halted in a 10-3 loss to the Tigers in front of 32,722 in The Bronx.

The Yankees (70-70) dropped their second game in their past 10 and fell seven games back in the wild-card chase.

Strong efforts primarily from the kids and the rotation have brought a remote aspiration of the postseason into play, but another clunker from Rodon reminded of the realities surrounding that pipe dream.

The big lefty was signed as the one clear upgrade from last season, a starter the Yankees brought in to put them over the top.

He, along with a lackluster offensive attack, instead has helped bury the club.

After forearm and back issues kept Rodon from pitching until July, he returned without the stuff that made him an All-Star the past two seasons.

Rodon’s ERA sits at 6.60 after 10 starts, his club still waiting to see the often unhittable pitcher he has been in the past.

Rodon was hit hard and often in 3 ²/₃ innings in which he allowed seven runs on eight hits.

Even several outs were crushed, a few deep fly outs falling a few feet short of home runs.

Spencer Torkelson ensured several of his swings had the distance.

The young slugger put the Tigers up 2-0 two batters into the game with a tone-setting and hope-evaporating home run.

Detroit kept adding on from there, turning two hits and a sacrifice fly into two runs in the third, then prompting the first round of boos in the fourth inning with an RBI double from Tyler Nevin.

Matt Vierling’s single scored a sixth run and chased Rodon from the game.

The second pitch Randy Vasquez threw in relief became Torkelson’s second home run of the game, putting the Yankees in an 8-1 ditch they would not climb out of.

Gleyber Torres drilled a second-inning home run, and Everson Pereira’s fourth-inning double drove in two.

The Yankees gave back those two in the eighth inning, when Andy Ibanez swatted a two-run shot off Albert Abreu.

The offense was mostly quiet and finished with six hits against Eduardo Rodriguez and the Tigers’ bullpen.

Dominguez, the wunderkind who lost for the first time, went 0-for-3 with a walk, failing to record a hit for the first time in his six big-league games.

There will be better days ahead for “The Martian” and the prospects the Yankees are checking out during a lost September.

Thursday represented a reminder those days almost certainly will not come in October.