“We ran into some really good teams,” Harper said. “Obviously, we could have won some games we didn’t win. We’re a really good team.”

Not as good as the Yankees, who already had the best offense in baseball.

Certainly not after they added Jazz Chisholm Jr.

The Yanks last week sent three prospects to Miami for Chisholm, a 26-year-old, play-anywhere stud whose exuberance and injury history offset his talent so much that the Phillies’ interest in him waned three weeks before Tuesday’s trade deadline. Chisholm went 6-for-14 with four homers, eight RBIs, and played brilliant defense at third base — where he’d never played before. The Yankees are 4-0 since he arrived.

The Phillies’ big trade addition in the field, Austin Hays, went 4-for-13 with one homer and four RBIs in the series, and flied out twice to the warning track Wednesday.

However, new closer Carlos Estévez pitched clean innings Tuesday and Wednesday, and lefty specialist Tanner Banks had an uneventful Phillies debut Wednesday, so it’s not as if Dave Dombrowski’s deadline additions haven’t shown up.

That distinction belongs to the players who brought the Phillies to 29 games over .500 just three weeks ago. Now they’re 22 games over .500. Their lead over the Braves has fallen from 9½ games to 6½. And they face the toughest trip of their season with the entire roster leaking oil. A team that used to be utterly clutch now can’t come up with the big hit.

With two runners on and nobody out in the fourth inning, Harper struck out on a 93-mph cookie. Bryson Stott and Brandon Marsh reached base as pinch hitters in the seventh inning, and that’s right where Schwarber and Hays left them. The Phillies scored another run in the eighth, which cut it to 6-5, then loaded the bases with two outs. Marsh whiffed. Schwarber led off the ninth with a single, and, one out later and right on cue, Harper grounded into a double play to end the game.

It was the most appropriate way to end the month.