MINNEAPOLIS — Here is the Yankees checklist.

Twins taken care of … for now — check.

On Wednesday night, the Yankees crushed Jake Odorizzi and hung on for a 10-7 win over the muscular Twins at Target Field, a perfect follow-up to their Game of the Year, 14-12, 10-inning victory Tuesday night.

The Yankees put up 30 runs in the three games and the offense is coming together now with Aaron Hicks and Didi Gregorius hitting their stride.

“The team is good and everybody is fighting to play every day, and to enjoy it while they are playing, so I think it is really awesome,’’ Gregorius said of the culture of winning that the team has established.

Some teams talk about culture, others create a winning culture. The Yankees have it going.

Gregorius earned the championship belt the night after he put up five hits and seven RBIs. He produced three more hits Wednesday night with a single, double and triple. Also, quietly Aaron Judge is riding a six-game hitting streak while Edwin Encarnacion blasted his 30th home run, the eighth straight season he has hit at least 30 home runs. Hicks and Gleyber Torres homered as well.

Beating the Twins the final two games in rock-’em, sock-’em style is good for the Yankees’ ego. If the Twins had not pulled off a triple play in the opener, the Yankees might have produced a sweep.

Also on the checklist: Red Sox in rearview mirror — check.

With the win and the Red Sox loss to the Rays at the Trop, the Yankees now own an 11-game lead over the defending world champions in the AL East.

The Red Sox are already buried, so this is dirt-on-the-shovel time as the Yankees play four games in Fenway, beginning Thursday.

“We’re definitely where we want to be as a team right now,’’ Gregorius said. “We’re playing good baseball, we focus on what we can control on this side. Every time you get the chance to play them, you get the chance to bury them. … That’s all you want to do, keep expanding the lead.’’

That is the perfect attitude and the Yankees are in a good place mentally even though they clearly need to add a starting pitcher as J.A. Happ could not get through the fourth inning.

The second-place Rays are 10 back. The Yankees have built up a cushion and own the best record in the AL.

Aaron Boone was asked what the Twins showed him this series and he said, “They’re really good. Their lineup, obviously a lot of switch hitters. They have some platoon guys, it’s a team you have to execute against or you may get your feelings hurt. It’s a capable group and it seems like a team that is playing with a lot of confidence.’’

Just as Judge said Tuesday night when he noted the Yankees will see the Twins again, Boone made a similar comment about October, saying the Twins are a team the Yankees are going to have to go through “if we want to get where we want to go.’’

This is statement time. The Yankees hitters continue to be the storm that can’t be stopped.

Nestor Cortes Jr. came on in the fourth to get the win, allowing one run over 3 ¹/₃ innings. He turned the game over to Tommy Kahnle, who came on in the seventh with two outs and two on and got a huge strikeout of Miguel Sano to end the inning. Kahnle was terrific in the eighth, getting two more strikeouts. Aroldis Chapman bounced back in the ninth.

Check that box, too.

It will be interesting to see if the Yankees are worn down from all this slugging and playoff atmosphere with the Twins.

That can take a lot out of a team, and for all those screaming about the Yankees resting players too much, that rest comes in handy with a series like this.

Can the Yankees keep the emotion at such a high level against the Red Sox? These last two games took more than eight hours to play.

If they do, they’ve checked off another key box.