When trying to explain something as inexplicable as the Yankees’ entire offense vanishing for an uncomfortably long period, including the supernatural slugger Aaron Judge, where do you draw the line between “that’s baseball” and something more nefarious at work?

After three straight shutouts, and failing to score in a mind-boggling 29 innings, Aaron Boone & Co. had crossed into a rare level of ineptitude before Wednesday night’s game against the Angels. So I asked the manager where he believed the Yankees currently sat on this spectrum, and what the concern should be in the midst of a five-game losing streak.

“I get the historic part just because we got shut out a few times,” Boone said Wednesday afternoon. “But it’s a few days out of 162, so that to me is a snapshot — especially as good an offense as we are. I get the noise around being shut out three days in a row, but it’s more when these things become weeks.”

Fair enough. But a few hours later, the Yankees again displayed many of the same troubling issues that dug this deepening hole in a 3-2 loss to the Angels, their sixth straight defeat. Staying on brand, they put up a pair of runs on two swings, with Jazz Chisholm Jr. finally stopping the scoreless-inning streak at 30 1⁄3 with a second-inning blast and Cody Bellinger going deep in the fourth to briefly give the Yankees a 2-1 lead.

Of course, that lasted exactly one pitch when Jo Adell opened the fifth with a tying shot to the back of the visitors’ bullpen, and the Yankees later unraveled in the margins. This time it was Anthony Volpe booting a tailor-made double-play grounder — the ball kicked off the heel of his glove before he threw wide to second base — and the error allowed the winning run to score in the eighth.

“I messed up,” said Volpe, who whiffed three times, including the final out with Paul Goldschmidt at first. “You take what you can from it, the good and the bad, and tomorrow’s a new day.”

More like Groundhog Day for these Yankees, who keep making mistakes, keep striking out and keep losing. The script doesn’t seem to change all that much, and neither does their reliance on the long ball — or leaning on Judge’s outsized presence in the lineup. They had only three hits Wednesday, and are now batting .156 over their last seven games with 66 strikeouts.

The Yankees had totaled a meager five runs over their previous six games, which is astonishing for a team that had averaged 5.14 runs per game before this anemic stretch. They also were hitting .164 with a .443 OPS (the Pirates were actually worse, at .409, during the same period). Again, ridiculous numbers when you consider the Yankees’ previous .784 OPS was second only to the Dodgers (.801) before the offense disappeared seemingly overnight at Kaufmann Stadium.

But as those zeros pile up, so does the pressure. And when you’re Judge, the two-time MVP on track for a third, it’s very likely the captain feels the heat more than most. How could he not? Judge went 0-for-4 Wednesday night, including two more Ks, and is now hitting .083 (2-for-24) over his last seven games, with two walks — both intentional — and 15 strikeouts. Is it any wonder then that the Yankees have cratered without Judge covering for the rest of the lineup?

Last year, when Judge stumbled during April, the Yankees had Juan Soto to pick him up during his only down month of the regular season. Now, with supposedly a more balanced lineup minus the $765 million Soto, the Yankees are searching for another hero or two to help out during Judge’s cold snap. Judge may be the most dangerous hitter on the planet, but he’s not immune to pressure, and conceded as much when asked about his disastrous weekend (1-for-12, nine Ks) at Fenway Park.

“Trying to make something happen,” is how Judge described the struggle.

That’s been contagious among all the Yankees, spreading like a stomach bug in the clubhouse. And a malfunctioning Judge is impossible to replace — you need two or three players to add up to similar production, if they’re going right. Or manufacture runs in ways the Yankees aren’t accustomed to doing, like playing small ball.

The Yankees’ best bat the previous two days — Giancarlo Stanton — wasn’t in Wednesday night’s starting lineup but did enter to a loud ovation in the seventh as a pinch hitter. Fittingly, Stanton just missed barreling up a splitter, instead smashing a sky-high, 97-mph fly ball to shallow leftfield.

Just short again. A few inches on the bat, a few more feet in the outfield. The Yankees just don’t win in the margins, and lately, they’re not winning at all.