ATLANTA — The Yankees are underwater, and sinking lower each day.

How many rock bottoms can one team hit in a season?

For the second straight game, the Yankees were shut out by the Braves, this time in a 2-0 loss on Wednesday night that plunged them under .500 for the first time this season and completed a three-game sweep at Truist Park.

Capping off a miserable 2-7 road trip in fitting fashion — they were outscored 18-3 by the Braves (78-42) in this series — the Yankees (60-61) headed back home as a sub-.500 team for the first time since May 1, 2021.

With their playoff chances continuing to dwindle, the Yankees’ biggest fight over their final 41 games may be trying to avoid their first losing season since 1992.

“When you don’t hit and you have games where you don’t score any [runs], it has that look of being flat,” manager Aaron Boone said. “That’s just the nature of it. I don’t think that’s the case. I think these guys have a lot of pride in what they do.

“The game is still littered with examples of teams going on unlikely runs. I know we’ve put ourselves in a position to not give anyone that confidence, but we gotta continue to work and fight and compete to do that.”

This is the latest in a season the Yankees have been under .500 since Sept. 5, 1995.

After they were one-hit by Bryce Elder and two relievers on Tuesday, the Yankees mustered just four singles against Charlie Morton and the Braves’ bullpen on Wednesday.

Morton cruised through six innings while striking out 10 and walking only one before three relievers combined for three perfect innings and added three more strikeouts.

The final 12 Yankees were retired in order to end the night without any kind of a fight.

Over the final 25 innings of the series, the Yankees scored just one run.

They have not had a runner touch third base since Monday, and only reached second base a combined three times on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Aaron Judge said he sensed the team getting deflated as the scoreless innings piled up.

“I think it weighs on some guys,” Judge said. “Guys maybe try to go up there and try to do a little too much and get that big hit and try to get a three-run homer with nobody on base. But that’s part of the game. I think going home, getting a little reset and get back out there, I think the boys are going to be ready. Just like skip’s said all year, it’s right in front of us. We gotta go out there and take it.”

The Yankees have now been shut out in back-to-back games for the first since Aug. 14-15 of last season, against the Red Sox and Rays.

Unlike the first two games of the series, the Yankees’ starting pitcher gave his team a chance to win Wednesday. Instead of pitching behind an opener, Randy Vasquez got the start and held his own against a daunting Braves lineup, allowing two runs over 3 ¹/₃ innings.

The damage came in the second inning, when Marcell Ozuna hit a 1-2 pitch over the head of Giancarlo Stanton in right field for a double.

Eddie Rosario came up next and crushed the first pitch he faced the other way for a two-run home run.

Michael King then relieved Vasquez with two on and one out in the fourth inning and quickly put out the fire. He went on to throw 3 ²/₃ dominant innings while continuing to stretch out to 44 pitches.

But the fact King kept the deficit at two runs hardly mattered because the Yankees could not muster any kind of offense for the second straight night.

And so they trudged home for a day off before a weekend series against the Red Sox, repeating the all-too-familiar lines that they were still capable of going on a hot streak, even if they have shown little sign that one is coming.

“We just gotta keep that faith,” Judge said. “I think that’s what it comes down to is trusting everybody in this room. There may be some doubt outside this room, but inside here, we’re ready to go.”