NEW YORK — Clarke Schmidt left early from Thursday’s start due to right forearm tightness, the Yankees said.

The right-hander threw 55 pitches over three innings against the Toronto Blue Jays before reliever Clayton Beeter replaced him to begin the bottom of the fourth at Rogers Centre.

Schmidt, 29, surrendered three runs on four hits with two walks and a strikeout in his three innings.

He has a 3.32 ERA over 14 starts this season.

Last month, Schmidt hurled 28 1/3 consecutive scoreless innings, the longest such streak by a Yankees pitcher since 1961.

Seven of those shutout frames came during a no-hit bid on June 21. Schmidt exited that start after 103 pitches, which matched a career high, with the no-hitter still intact.

“He was done,” manager Aaron Boone said after that win over the Baltimore Orioles. “As great as he was today, I think, physically, all day was a little bit of a challenge for him. I kind of knew even after the fifth, it wasn’t going to be long.”

Schmidt confirmed after that outing that he was “emptying the tank” in his final inning as his pitch count crept up and had experienced “a little bit of fatigue.” The Yankees then gave Schmidt an extra day in between starts, with Boone saying the right-hander’s recovery had been slow.

Since his scoreless streak came to end, Schmidt has allowed seven runs in six innings.

Schmidt missed the first three weeks of the season due to right rotator cuff tendonitis that cropped up during spring training. He was scratched from a start in early May after experiencing soreness on his left side but returned to the mound three days later.

The right-hander is a key member of a rotation that lost ace Gerrit Cole to season-ending elbow surgery and that has been without right-hander Luis Gil all year due to a lat strain.