ARLINGTON, Texas — Just about the only thing that could stop Jacob deGrom from dominating the Yankees’ beaten-down lineup on Friday night was his own body. 

But even after deGrom left the game in the fourth inning, the Yankees’ fortunes didn’t get much better. 

Clarke Schmidt continued his rough start to the season and the Aaron Judge-less Yankees didn’t provide him much support in a 5-2 loss to the Rangers at Globe Life Field. 

As the Yankees awaited word on Judge’s status after he underwent an MRI exam for his sore right hip, they got a rough glimpse of what life could be like if he is forced to miss time.

But the loss wasn’t just on the offense that mustered just five hits. 

Schmidt put the Yankees in a 5-0 hole by the third inning and his ERA rose to 6.84 through six starts.

Working through his struggles at the major league level, because the Yankees do not have much depth readily available in the minors as they await returns from the injured Luis Severino and Carlos Rodon, Schmidt gave up a season-high 10 hits against the Rangers. 

Six of those hits were to left-handed hitters, who have mashed against Schmidt this season, with the cutter he developed over the offseason unable to neutralize that side of the plate like the Yankees had hoped. 

After stranding runners on the corners in the first inning, Schmidt was unable to avoid trouble in the second.

He gave up a leadoff single before Franchy Cordero got turned around on a fly ball over his head that turned into a double by Robbie Grossman. 

The Rangers’ first run came in on a groundout that Oswald Peraza made a diving stop on to save from being a hit.

Marcus Semien then made it 2-0 on a two-out double to the left-field corner. 

In the third inning, Schmidt struck out a pair around a single and then threw an 0-2 curveball below the strike zone to Jonah Heim.

The switch-hitting catcher roped it to right field, where Cordero appeared to have a shot to catch it going back to the warning track but missed, allowing a run to score on the double. 

The left-handed hitting Grossman came up next and clobbered a cutter for a two-run home run that put the Rangers up 5-0. 

Schmidt was coming off his best outing of the season, when he gave up three runs (none earned) on three hits and a walk against the Blue Jays last Sunday.

But he was unable to build off it against the Rangers. 

After deGrom walked off the mound with a trainer with two outs in the fourth inning, right after Willie Calhoun had recorded the first hit against him, the Yankees pushed across a pair of runs against reliever Dane Dunning.

Kyle Higashioka delivered an RBI single in the fifth inning and Calhoun came through with a sacrifice fly in the sixth. 

Cordero, in addition to being unable to come up with a pair of seemingly catchable fly balls to right field, had another tough night at the plate.

He went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts and is now 0-for-21 with nine strikeouts over his past nine games.ne strikeouts over his last nine games.