TORONTO — Sometimes, you’ve got to throw a bouquet to the gloom-and-doomers.

What, you have a better way to spin this ugly Yankees loss?

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Yeah, the Yankees lost a weird one Wednesday night, 11-7 to the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. It was weird in just how many units malfunctioned for the American League East leaders: Their starting pitching, relief pitching and defense teamed together in a legion of doom to undermine a successful offense, which went 4-for-9 with runners in scoring position.

“That’s a game we should win,” said Zack Britton — who gave up the game-winning, eighth-inning, three-run homer to stud rookie Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Their inability to win extended the Yankees’ losing streak to three games, a funk they haven’t endured since dropping four straight April 8-12. It halted their run of series victories at nine, making their first series loss since they got swept by the Diamondbacks April 30-May 1 in Arizona. It decreased their divisional lead to 1 ½ games over the Rays and 6 ½ over the Red Sox — both foes won on Wednesday.

“Sometimes the other guys are good, too,” Aaron Boone said.

That the other guys in this instance lifted their record to an unimpressive 23-38 — clinching their first series win since they pulled off a three-game sweep of the A’s here April 26-28 — which couldn’t have alleviated the Yankees’ frustration. To the contrary, the night served as a smallest-sample market correction and warning flare for what could break bad in this largely magical season.

Can James Paxton reach his ceiling? Is the Yankees’ bullpen overworked and exhausted? Is Gio Urshela due for a crash?

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The odds heavily oppose all three questions producing affirmative answers, and besides, no 2019 team has proven more resourceful or resilient than Boone’s Yankees. Nevertheless, some folks find comfort in chaos, or at least concern. For those types, Thursday offered a smorgasbord.

Paxton, who dominated the Padres last week in his return from the injured list, never really found his groove pitching in his native country. On a strict pitch count, he lasted just 4 ²/₃ innings while allowing four runs, three earned, and four hits while walking three and striking out four. He departed after handing back a 4-3 lead the Yankees had built for him.

“I just didn’t execute very well in the first few innings of the game,” said Paxton, who insisted his previously injured left knee didn’t factor into his ineffectiveness. “I wasn’t very sharp tonight.”

The Jays’ fourth run counted as unearned because Urshela, the Yankees’ secret treasure at third base, made a great stop of a Guerrero bouncer, only to make a strong throw from foul territory that took an odd bounce on the turf here and skipped away from Luke Voit at first base. That wound up as the first of three errors and first of two by Urshela. The other miscue, a bad throw by Gleyber Torres from shortstop, launched a two-run Jays’ seventh.

There would be no bullpen perfection on this night. Instead, after DJ LeMahieu’s sixth-inning, three-run homer gave the Yankees a 7-4 advantage, all of Boone’s choices found at least a little trouble. Britton found the most after bailing the Yankees out of a tying-run-on-third, two-out jam in the seventh.

No, his gopher pitch to Guerrero, a sinker, was not terrible. However, the left-hander gave up a single to pinch-hitter Eric Sogard and walked Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to get Guerrero up there.

“Even the best of pens, you’re going to have the blip,” Boone said “Obviously, I feel great about all those guys, the way they’re throwing the ball.”

Don’t let your heart rate rise too much. The Yankees’ schedule features more cupcakes than a Columbus Avenue bakery. They’re too good to fail, or probably even to fall into an extended funk.

Sometimes, though, you want to worry. You need to worry. And nights like this provide more than enough fuel for your angst.