TORONTO -- Before Zack Greinke took the mound on Saturday afternoon in Toronto, D-backs manager Torey Lovullo noted that Greinke’s previous outing was a reminder that he’s still a human being. Greinke wasted no time flipping the switch back to machine mode, though, with six-plus dominant innings against the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon at Rogers Centre.

Greinke dealt with a stiff neck against the Mets on June 1 when he lasted just four innings and allowed four runs on seven hits. The D-backs gave him an additional day of rest by flipping him with Friday’s starter, Merrill Kelly, and a fresh Greinke had it all working in the D-backs’ 6-0 win.

The Blue Jays managed just four hits off Greinke, who struck out seven batters and issued a pair of walks. He even helped himself with the glove along the way, snagging a soft comeback liner off the bat of Randal Grichuk in the fourth inning before firing to first base to double up Justin Smoak, who had broken for second.

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“Today I felt like I did good with mixing speeds,” Greinke said. “I tried to get them out in front of the off-speed and thinking off-speed, then the fastball became better. The fastball command wasn’t amazing, but the off-speed was good to keep them off balance.”

Lovullo gave Greinke the opportunity to come back out for the seventh inning and push over 100 pitches for the first time since April, when he topped 100 pitches in five of his seven starts. He’d fall just short, though, when Lourdes Gurriel Jr. sent Greinke’s 98th and final pitch to left field, where it bounced off the tip of Tim Locastro’s glove and went for a triple.

“Zack is exceptional at showing his fastball, establishing its presence, and then working off of that with the curveball, slider or changeup,” said Lovullo. “I think the breaking ball was more in play today than the changeup, but that’s by design. He knows exactly what he’s doing pitch by pitch.”

Relievers Andrew Chafin and Yoshihisa Hirano had Greinke’s back, retiring the next three batters to strand Gurriel Jr. on third and preserve the shutout.

Greinke had some bounces go his way, too. Justin Smoak launched a hard liner into the right-field corner in the sixth with an exit velocity of 108.5 mph -- the hardest hit ball of the day for the Blue Jays -- but it bounced off the top of the wall just inches from being a home run and Smoak was limited to a single.

At the plate, the D-backs chipped away throughout the game and struck out just four times. Kevin Cron launched his second home run in as many games to left field with an exit velocity of 113.8 mph while Alex Avila snuck a solo homer of his own around the foul pole in left, his third of the season.

“There were so many things that happened within the game today that are good traits, traits of a good ballclub and what we do here in Arizona,” Lovullo said.

That home run from Cron continues what Lovullo called a “Cron party” in Toronto. Cron’s brother, C.J., hit his first career home run at Rogers Centre in 2014, and their father, Chris, recorded each of his two career Major League hits in Toronto as a member of the then-California Angels, on Sept. 30, 1991.