A distaste that had been bubbling up for the first three innings did not boil over until the fourth.

Carlos Rodon, demolished all night, became the victim of a stroke of bad luck, too.

Sean Murphy’s ordinary ground ball snuck down the third-base line, and 45,226 groans were heard.

Fill-in left fielder Jahmai Jones gave chase and misplayed the ball in the corner, booting it and allowing an eighth run to score and the lead-footed Murphy to chug all the way to third base.

The game, not even half over, was finished.

Full-throated, resounding boos — the kind rarely heard this season — filled The Bronx and followed Rodon all the way to the dugout.

The date read June 21, 2024, but boy, did it feel like any time in 2023.

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Yankees staring pitcher Carlos Rodón #55, sitting in the dugout during the 5th inning. Rodon was taken out of the game in the 4th inning.Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

Yankees pitcher Carlos Rodón (55) is pulled in the fourth inning when the New York Yankees played the Atlanta Braves Friday, June 21, 2024 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY.Robert Sabo for NY Post
The Yankees set an unofficial major league record in decibel level of jeers heard by a 51-27 club in an 8-1, series-opening smacking by the Braves on Friday.

A club that barely had a worry a week ago suddenly has dropped three straight and six of eight and was in danger of falling out of first place in the AL East.

In their first 76 games, the Yankees outscored their opponents by 125 runs.

During that span, a Yankees starting pitcher survived at least four innings in every game.

In games 77 and 78, the Yankees have been outscored 25-6 and out-hit 33-9.

Neither Luis Gil nor Rodon completed the fourth inning, the pair allowing a combined 15 runs in five total frames.

On a night when virtually nothing went right, the Yankees’ offense was silenced, too.

Chris Sale and the Atlanta bullpen held Aaron Boone’s bunch to three hits and one run, which essentially was gifted.

Late-arriving fans were better off staying home.

The Braves came out swinging, and Rodon (3 ²/₃ innings, eight runs — seven earned — on 11 hits and two walks) came out screaming.

Yankees third base DJ LeMahieu (26) tags out Atlanta Braves outfielder Ramón Laureano (18) at third base during the second inning when the New York Yankees played the Atlanta Braves.Robert Sabo for NY Post
His first fastball was lined into left for a single.

His second pitch, another fastball, was destroyed by Ozzie Albies for a two-run shot into the left-field bleachers, Rodon yelling a curse as soon as bat touched ball.

The damage done by a Braves club (42-31) that is not the juggernaut it has been in past seasons — entering play 12th in runs per game — was only beginning.

Three batters later, Austin Riley cracked a 3-1 fastball into the home bullpen in right-center. An inning later, three of the first four Braves reached base, culminating with an RBI single from Jarred Kelenic.

The grumbling grew in the third when a Ramon Laureano double scored a run.

The boos were fully unleashed in the fourth when Matt Olson blasted a two-run homer to right-center before a walk and Murphy’s well-placed double ended a Rodon night that felt an awful lot like last season.

The lefty had been enjoying a bounce-back campaign after a disastrous Year 1 with the Yankees.

He logged seven straight quality starts from May 8 to June 10, but has since turned in two duds that have raised his ERA to 3.86.

New York Yankees outfielder Jahmai Jones #14, hitting a triple in the 2nd inning.Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

New York Yankees pitcher Carlos Rodón #55, reacts after giving up a run in the 3rd inning.Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
The Yankees’ lone run scored in the second inning when Jones’ sky-high fly ball chased left fielder Adam Duvall back to the warning track — before Duvall reversed and charged in, misplaying the drive into a triple. DJ LeMahieu’s ground out scored Jones and prompted just about the final cheers of the night.

That accidental Jones hit was the Yankees’ only one until a Giancarlo Stanton single in the seventh — a base runner soon erased on a double play.

Anthony Volpe reached with a ninth-inning single before Aaron Judge bounced into a double play.

A rare bright side for the Yankees replaced Rodon.

Righty Yoendrys Gomez, called up before the game, threw 4 ²/₃ scoreless innings and, at the very least, gave the crowd no reason to boo.