NEW YORK -- Coming off a hotly contested series against Tampa Bay, one wouldn’t have faulted the Yankees for looking at a three-game set against the A’s as something of a respite.

After taking a series loss in which all three matchups were decided by one run and before hosting a four-game set against those same Major League-leading Rays (29-8) this weekend, the Yanks took on an Oakland team that has opened the season with the worst record in the Majors (8-29).

The Bronx Bombers promptly returned to the win column in Monday’s opener and then scored double-digit runs for the third time this year on Tuesday night, overpowering the A’s en route to a 10-5 victory at Yankee Stadium that secured the series win.

The Yankees batted around in a five-run third inning, with Aaron Judge driving in the first run in his return from the injured list. The captain reached base on a fielder’s choice that was too hot for A’s third baseman Jace Peterson to handle, allowing Jose Trevino to cross home plate. Anthony Rizzo, Gleyber Torres and Harrison Bader kept the line moving with consecutive RBI singles, before Jake Bauers closed out the big inning with a sacrifice fly.

Torres added his second home run in as many nights with a two-run blast in the fifth and Bauers knocked a two-run homer of his own in the seventh to counteract the one-man wrecking crew that was A’s second baseman Jordan Diaz; the 22-year-old notched a three-homer game, accounting for all but one of Oakland’s runs on the night.

“It feels good to have offensive production like that and rebound after a tough last series,” Rizzo said, “and just get back to playing our baseball.”

The third-inning cushion proved most beneficial for Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt, who earned his first win of the season with the longest outing of his young career. The right-hander tossed six innings of two-run ball with seven strikeouts in a 93-pitch start.

“It’s huge,” Schmidt said. “Any time you get a lead like that, you can -- not take a step back, but you get to pitch a little bit differently. You still want to be on the attack the whole time when you’re out there, but I think the big thing is when you have that lead, there’s more room for error a little bit.

“So it was good to be able to pitch with the lead, and obviously the offense did a great job tonight putting up a 10-spot. Impressive showing by them.”

Thrust into a starting role with three-fifths of the Yankees’ rotation (Carlos Rodón, Luis Severino and Frankie Montas) beginning the year on the injured list, Schmidt has answered the call with aplomb, but he hasn’t always had the results to show for it.

He has come close to crossing the six-inning threshold twice before, but on April 23 against the Blue Jays, the hook came after he allowed back-to-back two-out homers in the top of the sixth and then in his next start against the Rangers, he had reached 97 pitches through five frames.

So when Schmidt went back out to the mound for the sixth on Tuesday, he knew he needed to make quick work of the A’s. Yankees manager Aaron Boone had already told him so.

After securing a first-pitch groundout, Schmidt gave up a single to Shea Langeliers that could have spelled the end of his night. But Boone let him continue, and he bounced back by inducing an inning-ending double play from Tony Kemp -- once again on the first pitch.

“It’s very satisfying; I think there was a big sigh of relief at the end,” Schmidt said. “I really wanted to go back out there for the sixth, and I knew I had like 10 or so pitches he told me, so after I gave up the single, I kept looking at him. I was hoping he wasn’t going to pull me. So it was good to be able to get the double play there and get out of the inning.”

The Yankees know that same satisfaction, having enjoyed an offensive resurgence amid the series win. They will enter Wednesday’s finale with the opportunity to claim their first sweep of the season -- and take on the Rays again with some momentum in their favor.

“Yeah, it’s definitely nice,” Boone said. “[We] have a chance to have a really good series tomorrow.”