OAKLAND, Calif. — Brett Gardner wants this weekend’s three-game series against the Dodgers to be the first of two trips to Hollywood the Yankees make this year.

“Hopefully it’s not the only time we play there this year,’’ Gardner said regarding the matchup of the franchises that shared New York with the Giants decades ago and currently possess the two best records in the majors even after the Yankees’ 5-3 loss to the Athletics completed a three-game sweep Thursday night.

Gardner, of course, was talking about the Yankees facing the Dodgers in this year’s World Series. There is plenty of time between now and late October, but it is not hard to envision a Yankees-Dodgers World Series for the first time since 1981. The added bonus for that matchup would be the teams wearing their iconic uniforms instead of the Players’ Weekend costumes they will have on beginning Friday night.

The Dodgers (85-44) have the best record in the majors and the Yankees (83-46) are next. That has whetted the appetite for the teams to meet in the World Series for a fifth time since the National Leaguers bolted Brooklyn for Southern California following the 1957 season.

Even though nothing will be decided this weekend, with each team rolling toward a divisional title, the atmosphere at Dodger Stadium will be electric.

Big towns dig marquee names, and Hollywood certainly can provide celebrities who add a jolt of adrenaline to the party. Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson is traveling with the Yankees from Oakland.

Only three Yankees were with the team in 2013, when they last visited Dodger Stadium. CC Sabathia, who didn’t pitch (but will on Saturday); Austin Romine, who didn’t catch; and Gardner, who went 1-for-8 in the two games, which the teams split. Sabathia has pitched twice at Dodger Stadium. In 2008, he faced the Dodgers while with the Indians. In 2010, the veteran lefty allowed one run in eight innings during a 2-1 Yankees victory.

This will be the Yankees’ fourth regular-season trip to Dodger Stadium, where they have gone 4-4.

Among the 55,983 who jammed Dodger Stadium for Game 1 of the 1988 World Series between the A’s and Dodgers were a teenager and his older brother — Aaron Boone and Bret Boone — sitting in some of the worst seats in the baseball temple.

“I played at Dodger Stadium, but my best story is my brother and I going to the Kirk Gibson World Series game,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone recalled of the victory Gibson provided with a two-run, pinch-hit homer in the ninth inning off Dennis Eckersley that carried the Dodgers to a 5-4 win. “My brother was at USC and we left from there on [one scooter]. We were weaving in and out of traffic and we passed Mike Gillespie, the USC baseball coach.

“Our seats were up as far as you can be, about the final two seats.’’

While Eckersley and Gibson battled, the Dodger Stadium crowd was standing and two customers short.

“We left early,’’ said Boone, who remembers watching the blast on television.

Boone won’t be leaving early this weekend — unless he is ejected. Who doesn’t want to see Aroldis Chapman against Cody Bellinger in a ninth-inning duel? How about Aaron Judge versus Kenley Jansen?

And of course World Series talk will be in the air, even if such speculation is premature.

That, however, is what happens when the Dodgers, considered by many to be the best team in baseball thanks to a strong rotation and relentless lineup, collide with the muscular Yankees, who don’t possess a true ace, but have a deep and talented bullpen.

If you want to look at Friday, Saturday and Sunday as a dress rehearsal for the World Series, go ahead. And you will have quiet company inside MLB offices and over at Fox, where they are thinking along with Gardner.

Three Yankees-Dodgers games at Dodger Stadium late in the summer are nice. Three or four more in October’s final days would be special.