OAKLAND, Calif. — The news from Tampa on injured Yankees pitchers Luis Severino and Dellin Betances continued to be positive Thursday.

According to manager Aaron Boone, Severino threw a two-inning simulated game that went well and is moving toward a minor league rehab assignment if there are no setbacks.

“Assuming everything goes well with him bouncing back [Friday], he will be on that five-day rotation. He will throw another side in between and have a more extensive sim game his next time out, in five days,’’ Boone said of Severino. “Hopefully if that goes well, probably the next time out would be maybe in some [minor league] game action.’’

Boone said Betances will throw a BP/sim game Saturday.

“Then he does it again. If everything goes well, it will be Tuesday,’’ Boone said before the Yankees’ 5-3 loss to the A’s.

In other IL news, Luke Voit (hernia) was scheduled to start a minor league rehab assignment with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Friday and Aaron Hicks (strained right flexor), according to Boone, is inside a week from starting to throw.

Brett Gardner returned to the Yankees’ lineup, playing center field and going 0-for-4, after missing the previous two games with an in-grown toenail on his right big toe.

With the A’s throwing right-hander Tanner Roark, Boone shifted the hot-hitting Mike Tauchman from center to left, and that forced Cameron Maybin to go from left to the bench.

In Maybin’s past four starts, he went 2-for-13 and hitless in three at-bats with runners in scoring position. Tauchman, who went 1-for-4 with an RBI and was 1-for-2 with runners in scoring position Thursday, has developed into a key part of the Yankees’ lineup from the bottom of the order. Entering Thursday, the left-handed hitter was second in the big leagues (among players with a minimum of 100 at-bats) with a .379 batting average since the All-Star break. And he has been producing in the clutch, hitting .344 (22-for-64) with four homers and 33 RBIs with runners in scoring position this season.

To put in perspective the Yankees having scored at least one run in 211 straight games after Thursday night’s action, there have been 349 shutouts in the big leagues since the streak was born on July 1, 2018. Eleven of those were thrown by Yankee hurlers.

The A’s finished Thursday night’s action having scored in 89 straight games, which was the second-longest active streak in the majors.

The 211 straight games with a run was second to the Brewers on the all-time list. The Brewers scored in 212 straight games, from Aug. 11, 1978 to Sept. 29, 1979.

With a major league-high 52 homers in 21 August games, the Yankees are two home runs away from tying the club record for homers in a single month. The 1998 Yankees hit 54 in 32 August games, and the 1940 club hit 54 in 29 July games.

The Yankees have hit 232 homers this season. That is second to the Twins, who have clubbed 244.