NEW YORK — Robinson Cano’s grand slam gave the New York Yankees a chance. Russell Martin’s slam gave them the lead. Curtis Granderson’s slam gave them the record.

The Yankees became the first team in major league history to hit three slams in a game, rallying from an early six-run deficit to mash the Oakland Athletics 22-9 on a wet, wild Thursday.

“You’re not going to see it again, probably,” Yankees captain Derek Jeter said. “You can’t explain it.”

Funny thing: The Yankees could’ve hit even more grand slams, given all the chances the A’s presented them. Helped by 13 walks, New York batters went to the plate a whopping 16 times with the bases loaded.

Jeter alone came up four times with the bags juiced. He grounded out twice, struck and walked in those spots. Overall, the Yankees went 6 for 13 with two walks a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded.

In nearly a century of storied slugging, the Bronx Bombers had never put on a show quite like this. Nobody had, in fact.

“I’m surprised it hadn’t been done before with all the great teams and great individual hitters that have come throughout the course of the game,” Granderson said.

With MLB in its 136th year and approaching its 200,000th regular-season game next month, the Yankees knew it was a slammin’ day. Not until they saw a note posted on the video board about the three slams, however, did they realize exactly what they’d achieved.

“This game has been played for a long time. Pretty much everything has already happened,” Martin said.

Except this.

“Definitely cool. It was fun to be part of it,” Martin said. “When there’s nowhere to put them, they have to throw strikes.”

Martin homered twice and doubled, setting career highs with five hits and six RBIs.