ATLANTA — The Yankees came out of the All-Star break and laid a colossal egg.

It was, to borrow a go-to phrase of Aaron Boone’s, right there in front of them.

In front of everyone else, too.

On a Friday night when little went right — starting with the decision to use reliever Ian Hamilton as an opener — the Yankees fell to Atlanta, 7-3, in front of 41,844 at Truist Park.

“It was hittable and I wasn’t getting the ball past people and should have made some better pitches,” said Hamilton, who gave up three runs, three hits and a walk in a 26-pitch inning. “Didn’t give my team the best start.”

The Yankees’ lineup loaded up with lefties — seven of them, counting the switch-hitting Jasson Dominguez — but managed only three hits against Spencer Strider, who struck out eight in six scoreless innings.

The Yankees got within 7-3 in the seventh on a two-out, two-run double by pinch hitter Giancarlo Stanton off lefthander Aaron Bummer and Cody Bellinger’s RBI single off lefty Dylan Lee. Aaron Judge then struck out swinging at a 96-mph fastball, leaving runners at the corners.

Other than Ben Rice’s double in the eighth, his second of the night, the Yankees went down quietly in the final two innings.

There also was the obligatory breakdown in fundamentals, this one courtesy of Jorbit Vivas. He failed to run hard and then failed to slide — even as third base coach Luis Rojas was telling him to do so — while trying to tag up on a long flyout to right by Bellinger in the third. Vivas was thrown out at third on a Dave Parker-esque throw by Ronald Acuna Jr. for a double play that ended the inning (and took the bat out of the hands of Judge, who would have been up with runners at the corners and the Yankees trailing 3-0).

“Jorbit is a guy that plays his tail off. He’s a hard-nosed player,” said Boone, a former big-league third baseman who noted that Vivas got deked on the play by Atlanta’s Nacho Alvarez Jr., who stood nonchalantly as Acuna’s throw came in, jutting his glove out to catch it at the last moment while tagging Vivas. “Obviously a situation where that can’t happen.”

His message to Vivas? “You can never let that happen again,” Boone said. “That said, we’ve probably all been in a position where you’ve gotten deked really well, but it’s also a lesson of that can’t happen to you on a baseball field, especially in that situation.”

Vivas didn’t make any excuses. “That’s my mistake,” he said through his interpreter. “You guys saw the play. He’s [Alvarez] standing there and he wasn’t receiving the ball . . . but that’s not on him. It’s on me to make it to that base. Acuna has a really strong arm and he can make a throw from anywhere. That’s on me . . . I like to play the game hard and correctly. Right there it wasn’t the best outcome, especially in that situation.”

Acuna also went 2-for-3 with a double, a triple, an RBI and two runs scored.

Strider, who came in 3-7 with a 3.94 ERA for a team that has been among the biggest disappointments in the sport this season, allowed three walks in helping Atlanta improve to 43-53.

Hamilton — chosen to start because Max Fried still is dealing with a blister issue and Cam Schlittler experienced “upper arm soreness” while throwing earlier in the week, according to Boone — had the Yankees in a 1-0 deficit four pitches into his night. It was 2-0 nine pitches in.

After Vivas’ baserunning debacle, Ozzie Albies hit a three-run homer off Rico Garcia, claimed off waivers from the Mets on Monday, in the bottom of the third to make it 6-0.

“I actually thought as the game unfolded we had a number of quality at-bats,” Boone said. “Intermittently there were some quality at-bats, but [Strider] also had the swing-and-miss going and then we’re kind of chasing and in a little bit of a hole. Just couldn’t ultimately get that big one to get us back into it.”

The Yankees (53-44), who have lost three straight, fell three games behind the AL East-leading Blue Jays . . . In the last three games, the Yankees have totaled one run and gone 9-for-67 (.134) with four walks and 20 strikeouts in 21 innings against Cubs starting pitchers Matthew Boyd and Shota Imanaga and Atlanta starter Strider . . . Stanton, who had been 5-for-48 as a pinch hitter in his career, now has a two-out, two-run homer and a two-out, two-run double in his last two pinch-hit at-bats . . . In his second rehab start for Double-A Somerset, Luis Gil threw 57 pitches and allowed two runs, two hits and two walks in 3 1⁄3 innings, striking out seven.