World Series-winning manager Joe Girardi can add another title to his résumé: Highway hero.
Hours after guiding the Yankees to baseball’s ultimate prize, the selfless skipper rushed to the aid of a motorist who had just wiped out on the Cross County Parkway in a scary crash in Eastchester early yesterday.
“He’s my hero!” injured motorist Marie Henry, 27, told The Post at her Stratford, Conn., home. “It’s God’s will. Everything happens for a reason. I’m very grateful.”
Girardi insisted he did what any other driver would have done.
“We can’t forget to be human beings where we help others out,” he told WFAN radio. “I think that’s the most important thing we can do in life.”
Dazed in the moments immediately after she crashed, Henry, a Yankee fan, said she didn’t recognize Girardi, dressed casually in jeans and a T-shirt.
“He was just at the right place at the right time,” Henry said. “He was very nice and genuine; he had a serious concerned look.”
Westchester County Police Officer Kathleen Cristiano, who had met Girardi moments earlier when he passed through a sobriety checkpoint, was among the first to arrive at the crash scene and told Henry the identity of her good Samaritan.
” ‘Do you know who that was?’ ” Henry said, recalling Cristiano’s words. ” ‘That’s Joe Girardi, manager of the Yankees. He just won [the World Series].’ ”
Henry clocked out from her job in IT support in Manhattan at about 1:30 a.m., and climbed into a company car to head home.
As she took a tricky curve — where the Cross County merges with the Hutchinson River Parkway — a front tire blew and she lost control at 2:25 a.m.
Her totaled Trailblazer sat in the left of two lanes after hitting a wall, as Girardi and his wife, Kim, passed on the right, cops said.
“Joe’s car passed, he stopped and put it in reverse,” Henry recalled. “He pulled over and ran across to me. His wife got out of the car, too, and she dialed 911.”
Girardi said he was worried Henry’s vehicle would be hit by an unsuspecting motorist.
“She couldn’t open her door and I was like, ‘Ma’am, you got to get out of this car because if someone comes around that bend, they’re going to hit the back of your car,’ ” said Girardi, who lives in Purchase.
Within minutes, cops — who were less than a mile away at the checkpoint — and firefighters showed up. Game 6 winning pitcher Andy Pettitte had just passed the same checkpoint moments before Henry and Girardi, officials said.
Light traffic made Girardi’s heroics possible, the driver said.
“It’s a good thing that there weren’t a lot of cars on the road,” Henry said. “It could have been worse.”
As they waited for rescuers, Henry said Girardi kept her calm.
“He asked if I was OK and I said, ‘Yes, I’m fine, I just have a few cuts on my face,’ ” recalled Henry, who had visible scratches and cuts on her face after her driver-side window shattered.
“He told me to turn off the car because it was leaking fuel,” she said. “[He said], ‘I don’t want the car to blow up.’ He tried to open the door but couldn’t. He said, ‘We have to get you out of here.’ ”
Henry declined medical attention at the scene, but said she saw a doctor later yesterday morning.