BALTIMORE — With the Tigers reeling, losers of 12 of their last 13 games entering Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles, it was time for Matthew Boyd to step up. It was Boyd’s four-inning start against the Astros on May 13 that started the slide, and he was unable to stop it in his next two starts against the Athletics and Marlins, though he did all he could on May 23, throwing six scoreless innings. On Tuesday night, he went out and earned the win. Boyd threw six scoreless innings, allowing just five singles (six hits total), keying the Tigers’ 3-0 win. Boyd struck out eight batters and walked one. His 12-inning scoreless streak is the team’s longest this season. The Tigers provided him three runs — Miguel Cabrera hit an RBI single in the top of the first inning, JaCoby Jones hit an RBI double in the top of the second and Niko Goodrum hit a solo home run in the fifth inning — which was enough against an underwhelming Baltimore offense. The biggest situation came in the seventh, when Boyd allowed the first two men on, giving way to reliever Buck Farmer. The ribght hander did his job, striking out both batters he faced, and Daniel Stumpf recorded a lefty-on-lefty out to end the inning. Joe Jimenez pitched a scoreless eighth and Shane Greene picked up his 17th save of the season in the ninth. With the win, the Tigers snapped a three-game losing streak. Here are three observations from the Tigers’ 3-0 win over Baltimore: For as good as Boyd was throughout his six innings, the back-end of the Tigers bullpen did their part to secure the win, pitching three scoreless innings. Farmer’s two strikeouts came in the biggest situation of the game, with the Orioles threatening, and though it wasn’t easy — Jimenez threw 31 pitches — he danced out of potential self-inflicted damage in the eighth. Jimenez walked a batter, hit another, and struck out two. Though the results haven’t held up, the Tigers have been scoring early in games, taking some of the pressure off their starting pitchers. In each of their three games against the Mets over the weekend, they scored in the first inning. In this game, Cabrera drove in Christin Stewart with two outs in the first and Jones drove in Grayson Greiner with two outs in the second. It wasn’t an offensive explosion by any means — they only scored once more, on a wall-scraping home run by Niko Goodrum — but the early runs put them in a good position. Boyd was good, again. He allowed singles in each of the first four innings but none really started a threat. His fastball velocity was up a little bit early, perhaps a result of the humid-like conditions in Baltimore. Overall, it was a vintage 2019 Boyd performance, though he certainly would have liked to have avoided the seventh-inning trouble that pulled him from the game. In the win, Boyd lowered his season ERA to 2.85. Contact Anthony Fenech at afenech@freepress.com . Follow him on Twitter @anthonyfenech . Read more on the Detroit Tigers and sign up for our Tigers newsletter .