With a ninth-inning home run from DJ LeMahieu, the Yankees ensured they would not be shut out.

The previous eight innings, though, ensured the Phillies would not be shut out of victories this season.

The Yankees’ bats never got going until it was too late, their gloves — notably, Anthony Volpe’s — failed them, and the Phillies won their first game of the season, 4-1, in front of a frustrated crowd in The Bronx on Tuesday night. The Yankees (3-2) and Phillies (1-4) will play a rubber game Wednesday afternoon.

A Yankees club that had averaged six runs per game entering play was shut out for eight innings and held to four hits — two until the ninth.

Lefty Matt Strahm and four Phillies relievers silenced the Yankees, who did not reach second base until LeMahieu’s ninth-inning blast off Craig Kimbrel.

“They made their pitches,” said Aaron Judge, who went 0-for-3 with a walk. “They hit their spots when they needed to.”

The Yankees mounted a rally in the ninth, when Judge walked and Giancarlo Stanton singled after LeMahieu’s home run. But Josh Donaldson fouled out to end it.

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There was little for the 35,392 fans in attendance to cheer for, and they may have been loudest after each of Aaron Hicks’ outs.

The outfielder is 0-for-7 with three strikeouts and has been heavily booed. Judge, the captain, had some encouraging words for Hicks in the dugout after a fifth-inning strikeout.

“It’s early in the season. People are going to struggle,” Judge said of Hicks, who was benched in favor of Oswaldo Cabrera for the season’s first three games. “You can struggle now in April or you can struggle in August. It’s going to happen. It’s about just regrouping and moving on.”

Yankees starter Domingo German was better than his line (4 ²/₃ innings, four runs on four hits with eight strikeouts) suggested, but he still was not good enough in his season debut. The game spiraled for German and the Yankees in the fifth, when a two-run deficit was doubled because first Volpe and then Michael King cost the club.

With one out and Philadelphia’s Jake Cave on first, Brandon Marsh hit a ground ball up the middle that Volpe, foot on second base, had to wait for. When the ball reached him, it bounced in and out of his glove.

Volpe grabbed it quickly enough for the inning’s second out, but it cost him the double play — and eventually a pair of runs.

“I gotta make that play. It was a big point in the game,” the 21-year-old shortstop said. “That’s a play that’s gotta be made, and we’re off the field there.”

They stayed on the field, though, and a Garrett Stubbs single chased German. King entered and allowed RBI singles to Trea Turner and Kyle Schwarber, which upped the Phillies’ lead to 4-0.

The Yankees’ offense was nonexistent prior to the ninth. A third-inning single from Volpe — his third career hit — was the Yankees’ only hit until the bottom of the seventh, when an infield single from Gleyber Torres leading off the frame qualified as a rally.

But two batters later, Torres attempted a steal as Donaldson lined out to right, ending the inning on a double play.

“We were fouling some pitches off or just missing some balls,” manager Aaron Boone said. “I think that was a little bit on some of the life [Strahm’s fastball] had.”

For his first four innings, German was nearly untouchable — but when he was touched, pitches were crushed.

Of German’s first 12 outs, seven came via the strikeout, Phillies batters repeatedly swinging through his curveball and changeup.

But in the first inning, Schwarber hammered the second pitch of the game — a down-the-middle four-seamer — to right-center for a home run.

Two innings later, Marsh smacked another four-seamer to center to double the lead to 2-0. Those were the Phillies’ only hits until the troublesome fifth.

“Those guys are really good hitters,” German said through translator Marlon Abreu. “When you miss, they’re going to make you pay.”