There was a palpable buzz from the crowd on Friday at Yankee Stadium before a single pitch was thrown, thanks to the anticipation surrounding Carlos Rodon’s Yankees debut.

By the end of the night, that buzz had turned to boos.

Rodon was worth the wait, but the Yankees spoiled his solid start with another anemic offensive performance, against former teammate Jameson Taillon, in a 3-0 loss to the Cubs.

The Yankees (48-41) mustered just one hit and two walks in eight innings against Taillon, making him look untouchable though he had entered the night with a 6.93 ERA in his first 14 starts with the Cubs (41-46).

Their only two hits all night were singles in the first and ninth innings, and the Yankees never even got a runner to second base.

“We know we’ve got to be better than this,” said catcher Kyle Higashioka, who went 0-for-3 with two lineouts. “What we’re doing right now is just unsustainable. But as a team, we’re all grinding. … It obviously doesn’t look pretty right now, but it’s just part of the game and we know we’re going to get through it.”

In the process, the Yankees lost a third straight game — a span in which their lineup has scored just four runs in 27 innings — and fell behind the Blue Jays and into fourth place in the AL East for the first time since May 18.

“We’ve obviously been in and out of some personnel and that’s been an issue,” manager Aaron Boone said when asked if a change in his team’s offensive approach was needed.

“But we’ve also had some guys that we lean on that we’ve struggled to get them going. We obviously gotta do better than that.”

The Yankees’ brutal night at the plate overshadowed and wasted an encouraging debut for Rodon, who missed the first three-plus months of the season with a forearm muscle strain and back discomfort.

Nearly seven months after he signed a six-year, $162 million contract, Rodon gave up two runs across 5 ¹/₃ innings on 69 pitches.

He struck out two and walked two on a night when his fastball averaged 95.6 mph — right in line with what it averaged the last two seasons.

“It was nice to finally pitch in the pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, but not the way I wanted to start,” Rodon said.

The Cubs’ first hit off Rodon came in the third inning, when Cody Bellinger led off with a 410-foot home run to the second deck in right field.

Bellinger, the left-handed slugger who is on a one-year contract and can play left field, furthered his case as a trade candidate for the Yankees.

He later added a single, stole second and scored in the seventh inning.

Rodon did not encounter a three-ball count until the fifth inning, when he walked two of the first three batters he faced — including No. 8 hitter Miguel Amaya on four pitches.

That led to the Cubs extending their lead to 2-0 on an RBI single from Nico Hoerner, but Rodon was able to limit the damage.

Ron Marinaccio later gave up a run in the seventh, and the 3-0 deficit looked even more insurmountable given the way Taillon was cruising against the scuffling Yankees offense.

It marked the second time this week that the Yankees were shut down by one of their former pitchers.

Jordan Montgomery tossed 6 ²/₃ innings of one-run ball against them on Sunday in St. Louis.

Taillon one-upped him on Friday, putting together his finest outing of the season and throwing past the sixth inning for the first time since he was a Yankee.

“I think we were facing a better pitcher certainly than the numbers, but that said, I thought we had some pitches to do some things with,” Boone said.

“Some guys squared him up without much [to show for it]. … We all know we gotta do better than that and that’s on all of us.”