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Whenever trash day comes in The Bronx, the Yankees can toss most of Sunday’s game out to the curb.

It was an all-around ugly day in which they struggled to pitch, catch or, until late, hit the ball.

And even when they did, some questionable decisions caused an eighth-inning rally and comeback attempt to fizzle just short.

Will Warren turned in another slog of a start, but he did not get much help behind him or from his lineup until it was too late as the Yankees dropped a second straight series with a 7-5 loss to the Rays on a dreary day at the Stadium.

The Yankees (19-15) have lost four of their past six against the Orioles and Rays (16-18), with their rotation outside of Max Fried and Carlos Rodón proving ineffective too often.

That was the case again on Sunday with Warren, who got tagged for five runs (three earned) on seven hits and three walks across 4 ²/₃ innings.

He struck out a career-high eight, but that served as little consolation on a day when his ERA grew to 5.65 and he failed to complete five innings for the fourth time in seven starts.

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Yankees bats, meanwhile, were held in check early by right-hander Taj Bradley.

Cody Bellinger broke up the shutout in the sixth inning with a two-run shot, his 200th career home run, to make it a 5-2 game.

Then in the eighth, trailing 7-2, the Yankees mounted a rally with their first four batters reaching against the Rays bullpen.

It was 7-3 with the bases loaded and no outs when J.C. Escarra hit for himself — with Austin Wells and Ben Rice on the bench — and grounded into a 1-2-3 double play.

Jorbit Vivas came up next and recorded the first hit of his big league career, a two-run single that cut the deficit to 7-5.

Rice then pinch hit for Oswaldo Cabrera and worked a four-pitch walk, but Oswald Peraza grounded out to end the threat.

Aaron Boone could not pinch hit Wells for Peraza because then he would have had nobody to play shortstop on a day when Anthony Volpe (shoulder) was clearly not available.

As it was, Escarra had to move from catcher to third base for the top of the ninth, though that could have been avoided if Wells or Rice had just pinch hit for Escarra and Cabrera hit for himself.

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Carlos Carrasco got the call for mop-up duty out of the bullpen four days after he threw 66 pitches in a short start against the Orioles.

He had been on turn to start Tuesday against the Padres, but when Clarke Schmidt got scratched from his start on Saturday with side soreness and bumped to Tuesday, that bounced Carrasco from the Padres series and made him available out of the bullpen.

The veteran right-hander threw the final three innings and gave up two runs.

The Rays jumped ahead 1-0 on Warren in the top of the second.

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After he gave up a one-out single and walked No. 8 hitter Ben Rortvedt, Taylor Walls hit a ground ball to shortstop that Peraza bobbled on the backhand, loading the bases.

Chandler Simpson then beat out a potential double play to score the run from third.

After Jonathan Aranda took Warren deep for a solo shot in the third inning, the Rays piled on in a long fourth inning as the rain picked back up.

Two singles and a catcher’s interference by Escarra loaded the bases with one out for Brandon Lowe, who shot a single through the left side for the 4-0 lead.

Yandy Díaz followed with an infield single up the middle that Peraza made a diving stop on, but Simpson (who started on second) kept running for home and scored as Peraza’s throw home spiked off the mound.