Jacob deGrom’s slider was not obeying. His control — usually throw it in a teacup precise — was off. The Twins were on pitch after pitch.

DeGrom, though, had taken on such a James Bondsian glean that no matter how dire the situation the expectation was, just watch, he will get out of it. After all, his 2019 ERA entering Tuesday was not 007, it was 0.00.

That he didn’t escape was the most shocking occurrence in sports on a Tuesday when Magic Johnson unexpectedly resigned as the Lakers’ president of basketball operations.

Such has been the magic of deGrom for more than a year now. His greatness defined in the utter surprise felt as the Twins piled one hard hit ball after another against him, kept tacking on runs, relentlessly ambushed a pitcher going so good he had entered the rarest of arenas — the same sentence with Bob Gibson, 1968.

The expectation was deGrom would use that special blend of talent, imagination, competitiveness and athleticism to find a pitch that was working, battle until he got into a groove.

“He’ll snap out of it, punch two in a row and get out of it,” manager Mickey Callaway said he kept thinking.

But deGrom never did.

Instead, Minnesota amassed six earned runs in four innings against him. That was as many as he had permitted last July. Don’t look for the date — the whole month of July. That was as many as he allowed last August. That was one fewer than he let in last September. And it was six more than he had yielded in two starts to open 2019, which as sequels go was looking more brilliant even than his Cy Young 2018 — think “The Godfather Part II” after “The Godfather.”

“Tonight is on me,” deGrom said. “I was bad out there.”

There was a sense we would see a yeti at Citi Field before seeing deGrom bad. But it turns out, deGrom is actually not a pitching cyborg.

As Callaway noted, “We found out he was human, finally. I didn’t think he was for a while”

The Twins smacked three homers in a 10-batter spurt spanning the second and third innings, or as many as deGrom had surrendered in his previous 16 outings. It was not until the third homer — the second by Minnesota catcher Mitch Garver — that Callaway conceded, “Oh man, he just doesn’t have it.”

DeGrom’s 27-inning scoreless streak ended in the second inning. His quality start streak of 26 — tied with Gibson for the longest ever — ended in the third. And he was done after four innings in what would become a 14-8 Minnesota triumph.

Tim McCarver, Gibson’s primary catcher in 1968, said by phone Tuesday, “Pitchers who get in this particular kind of mode, it is the epitome of good selfishness, if you will. You believe they will get out of anything because they have a stubbornness [against giving up runs].”

But deGrom gave up his most runs since Sept. 5, 2017. Why?

There was a 25-minute rain delay at the outset. It was cold. There was a third catcher (Travis d’Arnaud after Wilson Ramos and Tomas Nido) in three starts — none named Devin Mesoraco, deGrom’s now gone personal favorite. Or deGrom is flesh, bone and more than a 0.00 ERA.

“He just didn’t have it today,” Callaway said. “He and Bob Gibson had it longer than anybody else in the history of the game and tonight he just didn’t have it.”

DeGrom went to a full count on leadoff hitter Max Kepler, but struck him out. It was the first of seven three-ball counts deGrom would create after having just 11 in his opening two starts. Eddie Rosario took deGrom to the warning track to close the first, but Brandon Nimmo caught it and the scoreless inning streak was at 27.

But Garver led off the second with a homer, then a four-batter span in the third went: Jorge Polanco triple, run-scoring wild pitch, Willians Astudillo single, Rosario two-run homer, Garver solo blast. All the hits were at least 98 mph, and for the first time since May 13, deGrom was assured of not authoring a quality start. One more run came in the fourth, then deGrom was done.

“The whole time I believed I would find it,” deGrom said.

He never did. It left all astonished, which provided the backhand solace to deGrom on a lost evening — he has been so great it became hard to imagine anything less than genius.I