#MLB playoffs will be another unusual challenge for Yankees

Gerrit Cole said he hasn’t called anyone for advice prior to his Game 1 start against the Indians in the wild-card series on Tuesday in Cleveland.

“Nobody has played in a [coronavirus] playoffs that I recollect,’’ Cole said Monday while the Yankees worked out at Progressive Field.

Plenty has been different about this season that was first delayed by COVID, then labor strife between MLB and the players association — and finally by wildfires on the West Coast.

But on Tuesday, the postseason is set to begin.

“It’s always kind of a feeling of ‘It’s finally arrived,’ ’’ Cole said. “Whether it’s [after] 60 games or 162 games. It’s just good to be here.”

At times, it didn’t seem like MLB would make it, from outbreaks with the Marlins and other teams being shut down at various points of the abbreviated season.

The Yankees were forced to cancel a series in Philadelphia and play an impromptu pair of games in Baltimore in July, while teams all over the majors had to adjust on the fly.

“It’s 2020,’’ Aaron Boone said of the best-of-three wild-card series.

“We are grateful as athletes, as coaches [and] as employees to be working at this time of year, to be able to get through this season and be in a postseason situation,” the manager said.

And not just the team.

“There’s a lot of people grateful to Major League Baseball, to people who have supported us along the way: security guards, bus drivers, the trainers who have been through so much,’’ Boone said.

“The fact we’re here, getting ready to start the postseason, yeah, it’s a little unconventional and like nothing we’ve ever experienced before, [but] we’re grateful. If it’s best two-of-three, so be it. We’ll put our best foot forward.’’

That starts in Game 1 with Cole, who said he embraced the pressure of a short series.

Asked what he liked about being in a high-pressure postseason situation, Cole said, “The stakes. They’re high. I enjoy them.”

They’ll be high on Tuesday.

Asked if it was “almost do-or-die” in Game 1, Boone said, “almost. You’ve got to win two.”