Aaron Judges career-worst RBI drought is just one of Yankees alarming issues with offense

If the argument for much of Aaron Judge’s career has been that the Yankees have been overly reliant on their Hall of Fame slugger, their recent poor stretch of play is only strengthening it.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

Certainly, Judge has gone uncharacteristically cold — in some ways going through one of the worst stretches of his career.Including Friday’s loss, Judge is in the midst of an 11-game streak without an RBI, the longest such span he’s ever suffered in the majors, according to researcher Katie Sharp.And in his last 15 games, Judge is just 10-for-56 with three extra-base hits and 21 strikeouts.Not surprisingly, the Yankees have lost 10 of those games.Also alarming: After Friday’s hitless night, Judge has just one hit in his last 23 at-bats with 10 strikeouts.All of it is part of a Yankee offense that has gone from boom to bust, seemingly overnight.But Aaron Boone, despite his team being held to just two runs against the Rays on Friday, believes the lineup — and Judge — might have turned a corner in the loss.“I thought we swung the bats well,’’ Boone said after the defeat in The Bronx.“A lot of guys [were] squaring the ball up.”And Boone singled out Judge, even as he reached base just once in five plate appearances.“Aaron Judge had good at-bats,” Boone said. He noted Judge “smoked” a ball in the third inning, a 111-mph smash that went right at shortstop Taylor Walls.And Judge ended the game with a 106-mph shot to left-center that centerfielder Cedric Mullins ran down near the warning track.Still, it was another game in which the Yankees lost without much production from the top of the lineup.For the last two weeks, the Yankees have had one of the worst bottoms of the lineup in the majors.Prior to May 8, their bottom half of the lineup ranked sixth in the majors in OPS, and even hitters seven through nine were 1...