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(Sports Network) - The Cleveland Indians will try to stay in the win column tonight, when they wrap up a three-game series with the Seattle Mariners at Progressive Field.

The Tribe put the brakes on a three-game losing streak with Wednesday's 8-3 victory over the Mariners in the second installment of this series. Indians starter Cliff Lee pitched six solid innings to move to 5-0 on the season, allowing eight hits and three runs.

The lefty struck out three batters without allowing a walk and is the first Cleveland pitcher to win his first five starts since Greg Swindell went 6-0 to begin the 1988 campaign.

Franklin Gutierrez knocked in three runs and Grady Sizemore homered for the Indians, who won for the sixth time in nine games and improved to 3-3 on their current 10-game homestand.

The Indians will rest their hopes on pitcher Paul Byrd tonight, and he is 1-2 with a 4.85 earned run average in five starts this season.

Byrd earned his first victory of the season on Friday versus the New York Yankees, as he allowed four runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings of a 6-4 Cleveland win. The right-hander is 6-3 with a 3.38 ERA in 10 career starts against the Mariners.

Seattle has dropped two of three and five of its last seven games. In last night's loss to Cleveland, Mariners starter Jarrod Washburn was charged with six hits and six runs -- five earned -- in 4 1/3 innings to suffer the defeat. Wladimir Balentien ended 2-for-4 with a three-run homer to provide the offense.

The Mariners are 1-1 thus far on a six-game road trip to Cleveland and New York.

Mariners starter Miguel Batista was bothered by a mild groin strain in his last outing Friday versus Oakland and will try to bounce back tonight. He is 2-3 with a 5.26 ERA in six games (five starts) this season.

Batista had won two straight starts before the Oakland game, in which he yielded three runs on two hits in an inning of work.

The veteran right-hander, who is 2-3 in his last five trips to the mound, hasn't fared too well against Cleveland in his career, having gone 0-3 with a 9.42 earned run average in eight appearances (four starts).

Cleveland won four of seven from the Mariners last season and is 16-12 in the series since the start of the 2005 campaign. The teams have split the last 14 matchups at Progressive Field.