Sked up in air due to COVID-19

Looking three days ahead where the big-league schedule is concerned can be a waste of thinking with the way the map changes almost daily due to positive tests for COVID-19 by major leaguers and staff members.

So, while the Yankees playing the Phillies four times next week — two in The Bronx and two in South Philly — is a strong possibility it wasn’t officially on the docket Friday evening.

The Phillies haven’t played since last Sunday when they hosted the COVID-19 infected Marlins and won’t play this weekend.

“I don’t know anything for certain yet,’’ said Aaron Boone, whose team was supposed to face the Phillies in Philly this past Monday and Tuesday before the games were postponed. “I know there is some optimism there but it is still too early to know one way or another.’’

Four games against the Phillies would force the Yankees and Rays to play four in three days in St. Petersburg starting Friday. Two of those games would require a pair of seveninning games in a doubleheader.

➤ Boone put Gleyber Torres in the lineup against the Red Sox, but he reserved the right to remove the shortstop if his right elbow wasn’t right during indoor batting practice or if he had a problem throwing.

Torres, who hit third and went 2-for-4, was hit by a pitch on the elbow Thursday night in the first inning and left the game in the fourth. X-rays were negative.

➤ A slimmed-down CC Sabathia, who is now a current special adviser in the Yankees’ front office, threw out Friday night’s ceremonial first pitch.

➤ Masahiro Tanaka sounded pretty sure he will wear a protective insert in his hat Saturday night when he makes his first start of the season against the Red Sox.

And he was adamant that he won’t be spooked by the memory of getting hit in the head on July 4 by a Giancarlo Stanton liner that was clocked at 112 mph and left him with a concussion.

“When I went on the mound at Scranton I didn’t think of it at all,’’ Tanaka said on a Zoom call Friday. He faced hitters at the Yankees’ alternate site earlier this week. “That said, I think I should be fine.’’