ARLINGTON, Texas — The beaten, battered and bruised Yankees trudged home Sunday night.

But not before they endured an absolute shellacking to cap off a brutal road trip that left them tied for last place in the AL East as the calendar flipped to May.

The Rangers teed off on Nestor Cortes and the bullpen, and the Yankees’ shorthanded offense continued to show little signs of life in a third straight loss, 15-2, on Sunday afternoon at Globe Life Field.

The beatdown was a fitting end to a 2-5 road trip in which the Yankees lost Aaron Judge to a hip injury that forced the reigning AL MVP to miss the final three and a half games — and possibly more to come, though that decision will not come until Monday.

By the end of the trip, the Yankees (15-14) had fallen into a last-place tie in the AL East with the Red Sox and eight games back of the red-hot Rays, the buzzsaw they will run into later this week.

“Tough trip. Tough league,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Adversity’s coming for us. We know it. And we will get through it. But the league waits for no one and no one’s going to feel sorry for us for what we’re going through. We gotta find a way right now. We’re capable of it right now, even though we are beat up a little bit.”

After winning or splitting each of their first six series of the season, the Yankees have dropped three straight series, going 3-7 in that stretch.

In the process, they have lost four games on the first-place Rays.

“It’s early,” Cortes said. “Obviously we’re not playing the baseball we want to play right now. We’re not producing and guys are banged up. Hopefully we get enough guys back quick and start playing better baseball.”

Without Judge for all but three and a half innings of this series against the Rangers (16-11), the Yankees combined to muster just eight runs across four games.

They have now scored three runs or fewer in 13 of their last 17 games, missing Giancarlo Stanton, Harrison Bader and Josh Donaldson to injuries during that stretch.

The Yankees even lost Jake Bauers on Saturday to a right knee contusion, in his first game after being called up to try to spark the offense, though a clean MRI exam on Sunday meant he will avoid becoming the 13th Yankee on the injured list.

By Monday, the team will know whether Judge will need to become that No. 13 on the IL.

“I’m not allowed to be concerned right now,” Boone said. “We got the Guardians [Monday]. We gotta prepare what we have right now.”

Cortes had one of the worst starts of his career, giving up seven runs on three home runs and four walks — all of which tied career-highs — across 4 ²/₃ innings.

The left-hander struggled with his command from the get-go and threw only 55 of his 100 pitches for strikes.

Two of Cortes’ walks came in the first inning and they came around to score on Josh Jung’s grand slam.

He issued another with one out in the fifth inning and it immediately came back to hurt when Nathaniel Lowe and Adolis Garcia followed with back-to-back home runs that made it 7-1.

“It was tough today to find the fastball,” Cortes said. “When you don’t have your fastball and you can’t control both sides of the plate, it’s difficult to pitch.”

The Rangers then piled on six more runs against Albert Abreu, who issued four walks, as the game quickly got out of hand.

The Yankees, meanwhile, only scored one run across six innings against left-hander Martin Perez.

Their offensive woes were summed up in the fifth inning, when they faced four pitches, had two hits and did not score. Kyle Higashioka and Aaron Hicks both hit first-pitch singles before Anthony Volpe flew out and Oswald Peraza grounded into an inning-ending double play.

“After today, [April] definitely feels pretty terrible,” Higashioka said. “But I think it’s just something we gotta work through. We gotta keep grinding. There’s no excuses over here, so we just gotta put in the work and trust that we’re going to find a way.”