(My Sportsbook) -- Faced with the prospect of the franchise's worst start to a season in nearly a century, the Cleveland Indians take the field again this afternoon for the finale of a three-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays at Progressive Field.

Saturday's 5-4 loss to the Blue Jays gives the Indians an 0-5 record for the first time since 1985, a year in which the club finished with a dreadful 60-102 record. Cleveland has not lost its first six games of a season since all the way back in 1914.

Toronto, on the other hand, is off to its first 5-1 beginning since 2001 following yesterday's triumph. The Blue Jays last won six of their first seven contests in 1994, when current manager Cito Gaston was in his first tour of duty as the team's skipper.

A potent offense has carried the Jays to the best record in the majors so far, as Toronto has racked up 42 runs through its first six games and leads all teams with a .318 batting average. The Blue Jays placed just 11th out of 14 American League clubs with 714 runs scored a year ago.

Toronto received excellent pitching from Roy Halladay (2-0) in Saturday's victory, as the staff ace yielded just one run and five hits while striking out seven over the first seven innings.

The Blue Jays carried a 5-1 lead into the ninth inning, but Cleveland scored three times off closer B.J. Ryan before Jason Frasor came on to strike out the Indians' Victor Martinez with the tying run on second base to end the game.

Aaron Hill went 2-for-4 with a two-run single for Toronto, while Adam Lind continued his hot start at the plate with a pair of hits, including an RBI single.

Lind has knocked in a major-league best 12 runs thus far and is batting .462 (12-for-26) with three homers through the season's first week.

Mark DeRosa accounted for all three of Cleveland's ninth-inning runs with a bases-loaded double off Ryan, while Shin-Soo Choo and Jhonny Peralta each finished with two hits in the Tribe's latest loss.

Reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee (0-2) struggled for a second straight start, as the All-Star left-hander was reached for four runs on eight hits and walked four in five innings.

Anthony Reyes will be put in charge of finally getting the Indians in the win column and makes his season debut this afternoon. The right-hander was outstanding for the Tribe after being acquired in a trade with St. Louis last July, posting a 2-1 record with a 1.83 earned run average in six late-season starts and allowing two runs or less in each of those outings.

Reyes, best known for pitching the Cardinals to a victory over Detroit in Game 1 of the 2006 World Series as a rookie, made his first start with Cleveland against the Blue Jays on August 8 of last season. He earned the win in that game by holding Toronto to one run and seven hits over 6 1/3 innings of work.

For his career, however, the 27-year-old is just 12-25 with a 4.91 ERA in 59 major league appearances, 44 of which have been in a starting role.

Toronto counters with former first-round pick David Purcey, who acquitted himself well in his first 2009 start on Tuesday. The left-hander lasted seven innings against Detroit and held the Tigers to three runs -- two earned -- on five hits while striking out five in a no decision.

Purcey started 12 times as a rookie for the Jays last season and struck out 58 batters in 65 innings, but finished with just a 3-6 record and a 5.54 ERA and gave up nine home runs. He opposed Reyes and the Indians last August and was saddled with the loss in Cleveland's 5-2 triumph after surrendering three runs over six innings, although the University of Oklahoma product did register eight strikeouts.

Toronto had lost nine of its last 10 games at Progressive Field prior to this series and has already bettered its 2008 win total against Cleveland. The Indians took six of seven meetings between the teams last season.

The Blue Jays have not swept a three-game set in Cleveland since September 9-11, 2002.