After removing third baseman Gio Urshela from Wednesday’s win over the Mariners with left groin tightness, Aaron Boone and Urshela didn’t view it as a serious problem.

Nevertheless, if Urshela has to sit for a few games, the Yankees are covered because of the versatility offered by DJ LeMahieu, who has started 35 games at third.

With Didi Gregorius being used as a pinch hitter Wednesday after not starting three games because a bone bruise on his right shoulder, he is expected back in the lineup Friday night when the Yankees open a three-game series against the A’s at Yankee Stadium. Tyler Wade, who started at short Wednesday, offers the versatility to play second, short and third.

This is getting ahead of things a bit but the Yankees could help themselves in October by hurting the A’s this weekend.

The A’s entered Thursday’s action as the second AL wild card. Should they win the wild-card game, the A’s would be a possible ALDS opponent for the Yankees.

That would mean two possible games at the Coliseum, where the A’s recently swept the Yankees in three games, and involve a cross-country trip teams would rather avoid in the first round of the postseason. The A’s are 43-26 at home compared to 34-30 on the road.

The Yankees have won 13 straight games against lefty starters and are 28-14 this year. The Yankees get a chance to extend that streak Friday night when the A’s start lefty Brett Anderson. He didn’t face the Yankees in Oakland during the A’s recent three-game sweep.