It’s a tradition that has been part of sports’ landscape since Adam and Eve talked about launch angles:

Players win. Coaches lose.

So, with the Yankees rotation in a free fall, voices outside of the organization would like to usher pitching coach Larry Rothschild to the exit.

In the past nine games, Yankees starters are 2-5 with two no-decisions and whopping 13.50 ERA. They allowed 63 hits, 11 walks and hit two batters in 37 ¹/₃ innings. Eleven of those hits were homers.

“It’s been really tough. It’s tough on them and tough on the team. It’s my responsibility to get it right,’’ Rothschild said after CC Sabathia allowed five runs and nine hits in 4 ¹/₃ innings in Saturday’s 9-5 loss to the Red Sox, which might be the veteran lefty’s last appearance for a while after he was put on the IL on Sunday with an inflamed right knee.

If GM Brian Cashman can land a starter who will upgrade the rotation — which could lose leading winner Domingo German to an innings limit — the latest downward trend might right itself. Improvement on the part of J.A. Happ, James Paxton and Masahiro Tanaka would also help.

Of course, the noise around Rothschild was muted earlier this month when when the starters went 5-2 with a 2.94 ERA in 13 starts, not counting Chad Green starting a game on July 18 and going an inning.

And for those howling about Rothschild, their noise is likely falling on clogged ears because Cashman has never fired a coach during the season.

“We have to do better than we have certainly this week,’’ Aaron Boone said after Sunday’s 9-6 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. “But also confident in those guys that we will do better and that this was a bad week.’’

The Yankees barely stopped a streak of allowing seven or more runs in seven straight games Sunday when they beat the Red Sox, 9-6.

That was the longest such streak in team history.