HOUSTON — Though the bottom seems to keep falling out on the Yankees, the sky isn’t falling.

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That was the gist of what manager Aaron Boone and two of his team leaders — right fielder Aaron Judge and center fielder Brett Gardner — said after a 8-6 loss to the Astros at Minute Maid Park on Wednesday night.

The loss meant the Yankees were swept by the Astros (8-5), who have won six games in a row. The Yankees fell to 5-7.

Boone:

“Any time you get swept, that’s frustrating. I also feel like we’re really close. The compete, even after we got down tonight, has been excellent. We’ve got to tighten it up a little bit and obviously play a little better but I think we’re really close to turning the corner.

“I’m impressed with what the guys are coming in with each day — the approach, the focus. It’s a little bump in the road that’s inevitable in a major-league season and we’ll work our way out of it.”

Judge:

“We fought to the end every single game, especially this game when we got down. It was 7-2 and a lot of people were counting us out, and we kept stringing together quality at-bats. We’ve just got to feed off that.”

“Two weeks into the season, young team that’s battling, fighting. We’ve been hit with adversity since the very beginning of spring training. So, it’s just how it goes sometimes in baseball. Sometimes guys get injured, sometimes the ball doesn’t fall your way, but we can’t hang our head about it. You’ve got to keep playing, keep battling like we do.”

Gardner:

“We gave ourselves a chance to win each game here. Obviously, we didn’t win any of the three. But I thought our guys threw the ball well. We just didn’t seem to come through with that big hit in a big situation. So, we were close to winning a couple games here, and unfortunately we weren’t able to do that. Offensively, we could be better than we’ve been, and a couple days here — we’re going to have better days out of our bullpen as well. We’ve just got to keep our heads up and hopefully play well. We’ve got a long homestand and usually we play well at home. It’s up to us to turn the page and do just that.”

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