Sleepwalking Yankees lose to MLB’s worst team, 2-1

OAKLAND — Three games on the bench and a heated 45-minute meeting with manager Aaron Boone woke up third baseman Josh Donaldson — for a minute anyway. So, what was everyone else’s problem?

The slumping and sleepwalking Yankees, whose only run came on Donaldson’s seventh homer of the year, embarrassed themselves in a 2-1 loss on Tuesday night to the Oakland Athletics — the team so bad that Major League Baseball is relocating it.

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“We know we have a higher standard and expect more and know we’re going to be better, but we’re going through it right now a little bit,” Boone said. “We’ve had a few guys that have gone through some struggles, but I wouldn’t call it frustration. I’d call it, like, this is get-to-work time, and how do we get guys going. And that’s on all of us.”

The Yankees have now lost five in a row on the road. The A’s — who should’ve been patsies even for the struggling Yankees — are 10-29 at home games and 21-60 overall. In the previous 10 games, the Athletics were 1-9, with a .195 batting average and 4.96 ERA, while being outscored by 29 runs. They’re are on pace to match the 1962 Mets for most losses in the modern era (120) since 1900.

But the Yankees without slugger Aaron Judge can make anyone look good.

The game marked the 27th time this season the Yankees, who remain in the hunt for a wild-card spot, have scored two runs or fewer and begs the question: Is hitting coach Dillon Lawson in danger? Because Judge isn’t the only one with a foot problem: Nobody is stepping up — even against the worst team in major league baseball. At some point, humiliation has to become motivation.

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And before you hang a medal around Donaldson’s neck — he has seven homers on nine hits this season — know this: He also struck out twice, including in the ninth-inning after pinch hitter Gleyber Torres led…