DETROIT >> If you want to find out what makes Reese Olson tick, the last person you should ask is Reese Olson. He’s not big on talking much in general and completely uninterested in talking about himself.

“Obviously good to get a win, but not really worried about it,” Olson said after delivering another quality start, lowering his ERA to 1.92 and finally earning his first pitcher win in the Tigers’ briskly-played 2-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays Saturday in front of a festive crowd of 35,321 at Comerica Park.

“I’m just trying to do my job every time I go out there.”

Olson walked off the mound to a roaring standing ovation in the seventh inning, having allowed only three hits with 10 ground-ball outs in 6.1 innings. It was his Major Leagues-leading sixth start of allowing one or fewer runs in five or more innings.

And the one run on his ledger was unearned.

“He’s nasty,” his catcher Jake Rogers said. “The air-bender. He’s just got it. His stuff is great. He’s got four pitches that really work…He’s always been the same guy, which kind of impresses me. This is my opinion, but he’s probably the most humble kid in the clubhouse. He’s always just sneaking in the shadows, but always as confident as ever.”Kerry Carpenter’s two-run homer in the first inning was all the offense Olson and the Tigers’ bullpen needed in this two-hour, four-minute sprint.

“That was a huge swing from Carp,” Olson said. “And me and Rog were in good sync today, he called a great game. And the defense behind me made a ton of great plays. It’s a good feeling to have a team that good behind me.”

Ironically, it was the one defensive miscue that got Olson in the soup in the seventh inning and led to the unearned run. He was climbing over 90 pitches when he walked Isiah Kiner-Falefa. With one out, he got Ernie Clement to hit a routine ground ball to third base but first baseman Mark Canha boxed the throw from Gio Urshela.

Suddenly manager AJ Hinch was hopping out of the dugout, summoning right-hander Alex Faedo.

Kiner-Falefa scored on a double by Davis Schneider before Faedo ended the inning and keeping Olson in line for his first pitcher win since Sept. 20.

We’ll get back to Olson momentarily. The eighth and ninth innings were fascinating studies in how Hinch uses his bullpen pieces. In the eighth, against the heart of the Blue Jays lineup — Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., Bo Bichette and George Springer — he brought in Jason Foley.

“We were in the middle of their lineup and they’re not going to hit for those guys,” Hinch said. “Their whole bench was left-handed hitters. And I don’t know if you noticed, by Daulton Varsho (left-handed hitter) was on-deck in the previous inning to hit for Alejandro Kirk. Whenever we were going to put Foley in, they were going to unload their lefties.

“We were in a position where they couldn’t do it if we got our three outs.”

Foley gave up a leadoff single but got Bichette to hit into double-play and Springer to ground out, keeping Varsho on the bench.

“It’s the reason I continue to preach, specifically to Jason but to everybody, that we’re going to use you when we think we can get the most production of you,” Hinch said. “And we did.”

That left the ninth inning, and the save, to lefty Tyler Holton, even though Hinch knew the Blue Jays would be sending up four straight right-handed hitters.

“Holton knows part of his job is to get righties out, whether it’s because they pinch-hit or it’s where their lineup is,” Hinch said. “The cutter is really key for him against this team and against most teams. He was so amped, it was probably the hardest cutter he’s thrown all year, but it was well-placed and he got the swing-and-miss at the end.”

Holton ended up throwing nine cutters with an average velocity 1.1 mph firmer than his average, the last of which punched-out pinch-hitter Danny Jansen to end the game with the tying run at third base.

“He was ready to go,” Rogers said of Holton, who earned his second career save, first this season. “He was amped up throwing his cutter. I just went out and said, ‘Hey look, this is all you. This guy (Jansen) was made for you. Just attack with all your pitches and he did. It was fun to watch.”

But back to Olson.

The Blue Jays’ plan was to exploit Olson’s reverse splits. Right-handed hitters have done most of the damage against him this year (.296/.322/.370) so Toronto manager John Schneider stacked eight straight right-handed batters against him.

The plan had merit, especially with righties bashing Olson’s sinker at a .362 clip coming into the game.

But Olson was unfazed. He came out attacking with his sinker and slider just like he always does. The only alteration he made for the flotilla of righties was to mix more changeups, a pitch generally used against left-handed hitters.

“I leaned on my sinker today,” Olson said. “I have a lot of confidence in that pitch and I leaned on it the entire day, to be honest.”

He ended up throwing 33 sinkers, 29 sliders and 16 changeups. He got eight whiffs, but 22 called strikes.

“I was throwing the (sinker) back door to righties early in counts and as the game went on, I started getting it in on them — in off the plate to keep them honest,” Olson said. “If they swung at it, it was going to be a ground ball.”

Efficient and effective.

“Reese is growing into a really complete pitcher where he can attack areas of the strike zone and areas out of the strike zone with any of his four pitches,” Hinch said. “Jake did a pretty good job with him. He can do a lot of different things and give you a lot of different looks. When you see the awkward takes and the head-shaking from the hitters and you’re seeing balls in play on the ground with multiple pitches, that’s telling me he’s really disrupting timing.”

The Blue Jays put him under duress in the fifth and he found himself facing Justin Turner with the bases loaded and two outs. The inning was created by a single, a bunt single and a two-out walk.

Over his 16-year career, Turner has an OPS with runners in scoring position of .882, .883 with runners in scoring position and two outs. He’s been one of the best clutch hitters in the game.

Olson didn’t flinch. He threw him four straight sinkers and then dropped a changeup. Judging by the ugly half-swing on the ball in the dirt, it had to be the last pitch Turner expected.

“Generally, he’s in attack mode in the strike zone,” Hinch said. “He wants the ball to at least start in the zone and go either strike to ball or strike to strike and he doesn’t waver on that. He’s not an emotional guy. He doesn’t really breath heavy. If anything he speeds up his delivery (when he’s in a jam), that’s his miss. But he’s not going to concede with any pitch in any location or fear the strike zone.

“And that helps him in times of stress because this game is played over the plate.”

Carpenter has been on fire. He came in fourth in the American League with a .553 slugging percentage and hit his second homer in two games. It was his seventh extra-base hit in nine games.

It was the Tigers’ second straight win wearing the City Connect uniforms. Hinch was asked if they’d be wearing them again for the Sunday morning finale (11:30 a.m., Roku)?

“Believe it,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s the reason. But we’re not going to test it.”