Gary Sanchez may not have taken his rehab game seriously

Gary Sanchez got through his rehab game without apparent incident.

Mission completed. Even if the means for surviving that game were comical.

Low-A Charleston welcomed the on-the-mend Yankee on Monday, a one-game tuneup before he could chart a plane to California on Tuesday and be activated for Wednesday’s matchup against the Angels.

All he was tasked with was to show the Yankees he, after a left calf strain, was healthy enough to play.

He’s definitely healthy enough to jog.

Five innings of Sanchez’s RiverDogs tenure produced a few funny Sanchez moments, including a check-swing bloop toward shortstop, which took him a few seconds to get out of the batter’s box and a few more seconds of meandering toward first.

His hustle improved a bit in his last at-bat of an 0-for-3 day, when he hit a hard ground ball to shortstop and was thrown out at first.

With 6,588 RiverDogs fans on hand — the second-largest crowd at Joe Riley Park this season — Sanchez also let up two passed balls. To be fair, he hadn’t exactly caught 21-year-old Alexander Vizcaino before.

Either way, the Yankees will be thrilled when he arrives, the first of many reinforcements after an unfathomably painful first few weeks of this season.

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