Gary Sanchez said he wasn’t feeling any discomfort in his strained right groin, but he hasn’t tested it with a 100 percent running effort outdoors yet. That is coming, but Sanchez said the real test will be when he begins playing minor-league games on a rehab assignment.

“The real test will come when I play in game and start pushing myself,’’ said the catcher, who has been on the DL since July 24. It’s his second stint on the shelf for the same injury.

Had it not rained late Tuesday afternoon, Sanchez was going to do some work on the Yankee Stadium field. He hasn’t progressed past hitting in the cage, and said that might happen in a couple of days.

As for when he will return, Sanchez said that is a question for the medical department.

“I don’t know, that’s a question for (trainer) Stevie (Donohue),’’ Sanchez said.

Manager Aaron Boone said it’s possible Sanchez could play in rehab games sometime next week. Sanchez is scheduled to return to Tampa this weekend to continue his workouts.

“If all goes well, hopefully at some point, maybe next week in Tampa could potentially start a rehab situation in the Gulf Coast League there and we’ll kind of go from there,’’ Boone said. “But all signs looking well. He’s responding well and just hoping to get through this week having really ramped him up, and then we can start talking about when to work him into games.”

Sanchez is hitting .188 with 14 homers, 42 RBIs and a .699 OPS in 66 games.

According to Boone, Aaron Judge rested on Tuesday.

“He’s not doing anything today, no strengthening, anything like that,” Boone said of Judge, who has been on the DL since July 27 with a fractured right wrist.

“The hope is ramping it up (Wednesday) and hoping that at some point this week, he’ll have a bat in his hands. His range of motion’s really good right now, but getting to that end point where we got to get that pain out of there.

“That feeling has to go away at the end point. Once that happens, he’ll get a bat in his hands, and hopefully, it starts to progress from there pretty quickly.”

Greg Bird has four bunt hits that have taken advantage of teams shifting aggressively against the left-handed hitting first baseman. The last one came in the eighth inning of Monday night’s 8-5 loss to the Mets with the Yankees trailing, 7-5, and two outs.

Since Bird is expected to add power to the Yankees’ lineup, Boone was asked if Bird was bunting on his own or was nudged by the Yankees’ staff.

“It’s something we talked to Birdie about in spring training — it is something that he is good at, is something that can be taken advantage of. I think he’s done a really good job with it situationally but that’s all on him,’’ Boone said of Bird, who started Tuesday night’s game hitting .218 with nine homers and 29 RBIs in 65 games.

“We may suggest it at times,” Boone added. “He has the freedom to do that in certain situations where if they’re overly aggressive in that shift and it’s the right situation in the game, I think it makes a lot of sense, and he’s been really successful at doing it and it’s absolutely something that teams have to consider now when they defend him.”

Bird delivered an RBI double in the eighth that closed out the scoring in the Yankees’ 4-1 win over the Rays Tuesday night.