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This time, the torpedo came close, but not close enough.

The Yankees offense, silent against Arizona right-hander Zac Gallen, came alive in the bottom of the ninth, capped by Anthony Volpe’s three-run blast with one out off A.J. Puk.

But they fell just short, as Austin Wells popped out and Jasson Domínguez struck out to end the 4-3 defeat, their second in a row after winning their first three games of the season.

Gallen struck out 13 while limiting the Yankees to three hits over 6 ²/₃ shutout innings, and the Diamondbacks knocked Carlos Rodón around for the first two innings before the lefty settled down.

For Rodón and the Yankees, his excellent final four innings weren’t enough to overcome his rocky start, when he allowed four runs in the first two.

“I need to make adjustments sooner and kept the game closer,’’ said Rodón, who walked four in the first three innings. “I gave them free passes [and] easy runs. I need to be a little more crisp.”

And the Yankees were quiet until the bottom of the ninth, when Cody Bellinger and Aaron Judge opened with base hits.

But Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s fly ball to right died in the wind before Volpe gave the Yankees some brief hope.

The big blow for Arizona came just three batters into the game, as Lourdes Gurriel Jr. slammed a two-run homer in the top of the first.

The blast reached the second deck in left off an 0-2 four-seam fastball. And it came after a leadoff walk to Ketel Marte.

Rodón’s struggles didn’t end there.

He issued a walk to start the second, this time to Eugenio Suárez. Rodón couldn’t handle Gabriel Moreno’s comeback later in the at-bat and it went for a single.

The runners advanced on a Jake McCarthy groundout and Arizona took a 3-0 lead on Geraldo Perdomo’s sacrifice fly to center. A base hit up the middle by Marte scored Moreno to make it 4-0.

The Yankees threatened for the first time in the bottom of the inning, with a Chisholm flare single to start.

A one-out liner to right by Wells nearly decapitated Chisholm before sending him to third. But Domínguez and Ben Rice both whiffed to strand the runners.

Rodón escaped back-to-back walks in the third by inducing an inning-ending double play from Josh Naylor to begin a stretch of 10 straight retired by the lefty to end his night, as he shook off getting drilled with a 115 mph liner off his right forearm by Marte in the fifth.

Rodón said X-rays were negative, but he amazed Wells and his teammates by being able to pitch another 1 ¹/₃ innings.

Gallen, meanwhile, set down 11 in a row after Wells’ double before Oswaldo Cabrera reached on a wild pitch after striking out to open the bottom of the sixth.

The Yankees didn’t get another hit until Wells’ single with two outs in the seventh, which ended Gallen’s night.

“He was executing and giving everyone different looks,’’ Volpe said of Gallen. “We were communicating. If we see him again, we’ll have a better plan and be more aggressive.”

Judge, so unstoppable in the first three games against the Brewers that they eventually stopped pitching to him, whiffed in five straight at-bats going back to Tuesday’s loss before his ninth-inning single.

He wasn’t alone, as Gallen’s 13 strikeouts included seven of the final nine batters he faced. The Yankees have whiffed 30 times in the back-to-back losses.

“We were up against good pitching the last two nights,” Boone said. “Gallen tonight, especially.”

The Yankees got three shutout innings of relief from Yoendrys Gómez to help preserve the bullpen, as they look to avoid a three-game sweep by the Diamondbacks on Thursday.