Mark Teixeira had the last good chance to get the Yankees back into the game Friday night when he came up with two runners on in the sixth inning, his team trailing by three runs.

But like so many of his teammates in the 7-1 loss to Seattle — and for the three games prior — Teixeira wasn’t able to take advantage of the run-scoring situation.

Instead, he grounded out to short against former Yankee Vidal Nuno and the Yankees lost for a third straight time.

“It wasn’t our night,” Teixeira said. “We did a good job getting on base and battling. We took our walks. They made their pitches. We didn’t get the job done.”

It started in the fourth inning, with runners on first and second and no one out before three straight strikeouts. The same setup occurred an inning later and the Yankees couldn’t even advance the runners.

In the end, they went 0-for-12 with runners in scoring position and are now 3-for-34 in their past three games. They left a dozen runners on.

“It goes in cycles,” manager Joe Girardi said. “We’ve struggled the last few days with runners on why and that’s why we’ve lost a few in a row. It will change, but when you go through it, it’s no fun.”

Luis Severino was hardly impressive, surrendering four runs on eight hits in 5 ²/₃ innings. But with the offense stuck in neutral, he barely had a chance in his second outing of the season.

It certainly wasn’t the way the Yankees wanted to begin a nine-game homestand.
After scoring eight or more runs in three of their first five games — all in The Bronx — they have now gone four straight scoring three or less. Not surprisingly, they have lost three of them.

The culprit isn’t hard to find.

Brett Gardner got the Yankees off to a fast start, ripping his first home run of the season — a liner to right off Seattle starter Nathan Karns in the bottom of the first to make it 1-0.

That was the lone highlight of the evening and the task doesn’t figure to get any easier Saturday against Felix Hernandez.

On Friday, Severino couldn’t make up for the lack of offense.

Severino, who gave up 10 hits in his first start of the season — a 4-0 loss at Detroit — wasn’t at his best again at home.

The Yankees seemed poised to score more runs, but Girardi’s decision to keep the slumping Alex Rodriguez on the bench in favor of continuously ineffective Dustin Ackley didn’t pay off.

Asked if Rodriguez would play Saturday, Girardi said: “I’ll make the lineup [Saturday] morning.”

But Ackley was hardly alone, as Didi Gregorius, Chase Headley and Jacoby Ellsbury all struck out to end a threat in the fourth.

Severino left a 2-0 fastball over the plate to Chris Iannetta in the fifth, resulting in a two-run homer off that gave Seattle a 3-1 lead.

Carlos Beltran made a bid to drive in multiple runs by drilling a line drive to the track in center with runners on first and second and one out, but Leonys Martin raced back and made a tumbling catch.

Severino was one out away from getting out of the sixth, but Adam Lind ended his night with a run-scoring single to center.

Karns pitched around four walks before he was replaced by Tony Zych, who loaded the bases with two outs and then departed in favor of Nuno.

Lind scooped a poor throw from shortstop Ketel Marte on Teixeira’s chopper to end the Yankees’ final threat of the night.