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 the Yankees 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.

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

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

And the Yankees were silent 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 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.

Aaron Judge looks back after striking out during the Yankees’ 4-3 loss to the Diamondbacks on April 2, 2025. Corey Sipkin for New York Post

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, fresh off signing a six-year, $116 million contract extension.

Rodón’s struggles didn’t end there.

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He issued a walk to start the second, this time to Eugenio Suárez.

The lefty then walked off the mound after falling 2-0 behind the next batter, Gabriel Moreno. Rodón couldn’t handle Moreno’s comeback later in the at-bat, and it went for a single.

Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen held the Yankees scoreless in his 6 2/3 outing. Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images

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, then a one-out liner to right by Wells that nearly decapitated Chisholm before sending him to third.

Jasson Dominguez strikes out swinging during the fifth inning of the Yankees’ loss to the Diamondbacks. Bill Kostroun for New York Post

But Domínguez and Ben Rice each whiffed to strand the runners.

Rodón escaped back-to-back walks in the third by inducing an inning-ending double play from Josh Naylor.

That began a stretch of 10 straight retired by Rodón to end his night, as he shook off getting drilled with a liner off his right arm by Marte in the fifth.

Carlos Rodon, who gave up four runs over six innings, looks down at the ball during the third inning of the Yankees’ loss to the Diamondbacks. Bill Kostroun for New York Post

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.

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 struck out 13, including seven of the final nine batters he faced.

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.