ANAHEIM, Calif. — The only magic the Yankees’ lineup has conjured up lately is making opposing starting pitchers look unhittable.

Angels left-hander Patrick Sandoval is the best of the bunch the Yankees have faced on this road trip, which was a recipe for disaster for Aaron Boone’s club.

The Yankees could hardly touch Sandoval, or the Angels bullpen, mustering just two hits all night in another paltry offensive effort that turned into a 5-1 loss on Tuesday at Angel Stadium.

After suffering back-to-back extra-inning losses, the Yankees (50-46) spared themselves that gut punch on Tuesday and just got dominated for nine innings on the way to their eighth loss in their last 10 games.

“We’ve gotta fight,” Boone said. “We’ve got really good players in there and a lot of guys are going through a tough, tough stretch — for some, probably as tough a stretch as they’ve been in their career.

“You don’t take your ball and go home, you stick your nose in there and grind it out and compete your ass off. We’re doing that, they’re doing that, they’re not leaving any stone unturned. It’s not from a lack of work and focus and conversations.”

The Angels (48-48) entered this series having lost 11 of their last 13 games, but the Yankees, who are sitting in last place in the AL East, have provided them a respite.

While few expected new hitting coach Sean Casey to instantly revitalize the scuffling offense, his impact has yet to make much of a difference, at least in the results.

“Obviously we have a new voice in there with Case where we’re trying to lay the right foundation, have the right conversations, free these guys up a little bit mentally,” Boone said. “I think a lot of them that are going through a tough stretch, the game gets really hard and you start to press. So you gotta strike that balance.”

Of course, that is easier said than done.

“It’s hard to have fun when you’re getting your teeth kicked in, individually and as a team,” said Anthony Rizzo, who went 0-for-4 and is now 20-for-127 (.157) since the beginning of June with no home runs since May 20. “But this is the game. [Wednesday] we could all wake up and come in and have an opportunity to win and go back to New York on a little bit of a high.”

Sandoval cruised through 7 ¹/₃ innings with seven strikeouts, giving up just a solo home run to Gleyber Torres in the third inning and a single to Anthony Volpe in the eighth.

He also issued three walks, all of them coming in the first two innings, but the Yankees could not take advantage.

And on a night when Domingo German was not at his best (six innings, five runs), even an early 2-0 deficit proved insurmountable.

Before Sandoval, who entered Tuesday with a 4.41 ERA, it was Angels right-hander Griffin Canning (entered with 4.62 ERA) on Monday who struck out 12 Yankees across 5 ²/₃ innings of two-run ball.

And over the weekend in Denver, it was Rockies lefty Austin Gomber (he entered with a 6.40 ERA) and righty Chase Anderson (he entered with a 6.89 ERA) who combined for 11 innings of two-run ball against the Yankees.

When Casey took over for Dillon Lawson at the All-Star break, he noted that the Yankees were missing the grind-it-out approach that made life tough for opposing starters. Five games into the second half, the Yankees have yet to find it.

Instead, they have a group that is struggling collectively — aside from Torrres — and pressing the longer they go without results.

“It’s on all of us,” Boone said. “On me, on the coaches, on staff, on players, to strike that balance — because the care factor is so much and the game is so damn hard and hitting is so hard. You gotta strike that balance between coming in, focused, work, preparation. Now 7 o’clock hits — 6:38 tonight — let’s go play the game, like a kid.”