Berríos shaves his ERA by a run

Three things you should know about the Blue Jays’ 3-0 win over the Mariners at Rogers Centre on Tuesday

Putting up zeros

José Berríos dragged a 5.82 earnedrun average into Tuesday’s game after allowing 11 runs in 10 innings over his last two starts. His ERA dropped almost a full run to 4.83 after he shut out Seattle for sevenplus innings. Berríos was only in trouble once all night, loading the bases with one out in the second inning on a double, a single and a walk before the 27-year-old got Steven Souza Jr. to bounce into an inning-ending double play. He needed just 10 pitches in the third inning and 11 in the fourth, and allowed just six hits before handing things over to David Phelps.

Dave the Pitcher

Need a reliever to get you out of a jam? Just call Dave The Pitcher! After Berríos started the eighth inning by allowing a walk and a single, the 35-year-old Phelps got a cue shot ground ball for the first out, struck out leadoff man Adam Frazier and got Ty France on an easy fly ball to right. Phelps has inherited nine runners this season and has allowed only one of them to score.

Triple threat

All the runs came on one swing of the bat, a bases-loaded triple to shallow right by George Springer, who got just enough of a 97-m.p.h. fastball from Logan Gilbert to drop it into no man’s land, just out of the reach of a diving Souza. It was the Jays’ first triple of the season; they had been the only team in the majors without one.