Gerrit Cole made a point on Tuesday night, in more ways than one.

He shut down the Mariners in a 3-1 win to snap a four-game losing streak and then set the internet on fire by pointing his finger repeatedly as he walked off the mound after striking out Jose Caballero to end the seventh inning.

As the Yankees learn to live without Aaron Judge until he returns from a sprained toe, Cole made his team’s three runs stand up.

He struck out the side in order in the seventh, with the final one against Caballero, which came after Cole lobbed an 0-2 pitch to the backstop, seemingly bothered by the second baseman’s actions between pitches with the pitch clock winding down.

Joked Cole: “Sometimes a high fastball can be a really effective pitch. You’ve got to change eye levels.”

He said the reason he wagged his finger toward Seattle’s dugout was because he got some “choice words” from Mariners manager Scott Servais, who, Cole said, was wagging his finger at him.

As for Caballero’s antics, Cole said, “It seems like that’s his game.”

Caballero said he took no offense.

“We had a good battle there,’’ Caballero said. “He didn’t like the way I was manipulating the pitch clock, but he just got excited, so that’s good.”

The incident was a backdrop to what was an important win for a Yankee team that had just been swept in Boston.

The day started with general manager Brian Cashman feeling the need to defend the offense, which has been nearly invisible without Judge.

On Tuesday, they did just enough for Cole, who allowed one run in 7¹/₃ innings and improved to 7-0 with a 1.87 ERA in seven starts following Yankees losses.

It was also his fourth stellar outing in a row, having allowed just five runs over those four games in 25 ¹/₃ innings.

The lineup provided an RBI double from a slumping Anthony Rizzo, who had three hits after entering in a 4-for-48 funk, and a two-run homer by Billy McKinney.

The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, thanks to some help from Seattle’s defense, which was spotty all game.

With Gleyber Torres on first and two out, Rizzo belted a shot to the track in right-center, where right fielder Teoscar Hernandez should have made an inning-ending catch. But Hernandez dropped it and Torres scored from first on the play that was somehow called a double.

“I was grateful he didn’t catch it,’’ Rizzo said.

Cole walked Jarred Kelenic with one out in the second and Eugenio Suarez followed with a flare single to right before the right-hander got Cal Raleigh to fly to left and then struck out ex-Yankee Mike Ford to end the threat.

McKinney extended the lead in the second.

Harrison Bader, just back from the IL, reached on a leadoff single through the right side of the infield and McKinney then drilled a 432-foot, two-run shot into the bleachers in right for a 3-0 lead against George Kirby, who pitched at nearby Rye High School.

The Mariners got to Cole in the sixth.

Cole hit Ty France with a pitch with one out and then got Hernandez to fly to shallow right, but Kelenic hit a ball off the wall in left that drove in France to make it 3-1.

Cole stranded Kelenic at second by fanning Suarez.

He whiffed the last five batters he faced before Clay Holmes took over in the eighth and finished it for a five-out save.