Exactly one year ago, Gio Urshela was quietly acquired by the Yankees, who immediately shipped the anonymous, offensively challenged infielder to the minors. Sunday night, the third baseman screamed in pain, then heard a sold-out Yankee Stadium scream his name.

After making the crowd erupt with a two-run homer, which sparked the decisive six-run third-inning in the Yankees’ 7-4 win over the Red Sox, Urshela earned perhaps his greatest ovation in pinstripes before his sixth-inning at-bat was over.

Facing reliever Ryan Weber, Urshela sharply fouled a second-pitch sinker just above his right knee, and fell to the ground, as Aaron Boone and trainer Steve Donohue checked on him. Urshela hopped and hobbled around, then returned to the plate. Two pitches later, Urshela drilled a foul ball off his left shin, sending him down again.

Following another checkup from the dugout, Urshela got back to his feet, and the crowd followed suit, standing and cheering, before chanting “Gio! Gio! Gio!” Urshela then harmlessly grounded out, and returned to his position at third base, but was removed prior to the ninth inning.

Unlike so many of his ailing teammates, Urshela’s X-rays came up negative. Though he was sore, and had ice packs on both legs following the game, Urshela said he planned on playing Monday in Baltimore.

“I feel good. Better [than] during the game,” Urshela said. ”I think I’m going to be good. … Thank God I’m good.”

When Boone watched the sequence, he feared the team’s injured list was about to grow more crowded.

“The second one, he goes down, and you’re just like, ‘Man …’ ” Boone said. “At the end of the next inning, it seemed like it was stiffening up on him, so at that point it was time to get him out.”

When Aaron Judge watched the sequence, he expected more heroics from the unlikely star.

“I was going up and down the dugout saying, ‘He’s gonna hit a home run here,’ ” Judge said. “The whole crowd was chanting his name. … He’s tough.”

And so much more than the Yankees ever envisioned for AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Miguel Andujar’s backup.

Urshela, who opened the season in Triple-A, was designated for assignment twice last season — by the Indians and Blue Jays. Now, the 27-year-old has a .314 batting average and 12 home runs — he hit eight total during his first three major league seasons — and holds the American League’s longest active hitting streak at 11 games.

Now, Yankee Stadium screams his name.

“It doesn’t matter, the injuries,” Urshela said. “We come here to play every day, to win the game.”

Additional reporting by Ken Davidoff