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(Sports Network) - Southpaw Cliff Lee can continue one of baseball's most surprising turnarounds tonight when the Cleveland Indians host the San Diego Padres in the second game of their three-game interleague series at Progressive Field.

A winner just five times over 20 appearances last season, Lee has already doubled that total through 12 trips to the mound in 2008, including a four- start win streak that began six days after the lone loss on May 18.

Lee has posted a 2.52 earned run average in 82 innings of work, allowing 74 hits and striking out 70 batters. Last season, in 97 1/3 innings he was touched for 112 hits, struck out just 66 batters and posted a 6.29 ERA.

The 29-year-old Arkansas native entered the year with 54 career wins, including 14 in both 2004 and 2006 and a personal-high 18 in 2005.

He defeated Detroit in his most recent start, allowing six hits and two runs over five innings in the Indians' 8-2 win on June 9.

Lee allowed five hits in seven scoreless innings in his lone start against the Padres.

San Diego's Cha Seung Baek faces the Indians for the first time since becoming a National Leaguer.

The 28-year-old Korean began the 2008 season with Seattle and pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief against Cleveland on April 30, allowing four hits and two runs.

He's made three appearances - two starts - with the Padres, including a June 7 matchup with the New York Mets in which he allowed just one run on seven hits in six innings.

The Padres won that game, 2-1.

Baek is 1-2 in five lifetime meetings with Cleveland - four starts - with a 4.97 ERA in 25 1/3 innings.

On Friday, Grady Sizemore hit a pair of home runs separated by nearly five hours, and the Indians came back for a 9-5 win over the Padres that took six hours and 15 minutes to complete.

The game featured a rain delay of nearly three hours in the bottom of the first inning, but the decision was made to try and finish the contest.

Kelly Shoppach added a two-run homer for the Indians, who have won four of their last five games. Shin-Soo Choo knocked in the go-ahead runs with a single in the sixth, while Jamey Carroll went 3-for-5 and knocked in a run.

Rafael Betancourt (2-3) tossed 1 2/3 innings of shutout ball to earn the win in relief of Jeremy Sowers, who allowed four runs on nine hits in 4 1/3 frames.

Kevin Kouzmanoff and Adrian Gonzalez each homered and drove in two runs for the Padres, who had a two-game win streak halted and lost for just the second time in their last nine games. Khalil Greene knocked in the other run in the losing effort.

Cla Meredith (0-2) allowed two runs in the sixth, dropping the decision in relief of Josh Banks, who allowed three runs on five hits in five innings. The San Diego bullpen was tagged for six runs on seven hits in three innings, issuing six walks.

Cleveland is 5-2 lifetime against the Padres and took two of three tests from San Diego at Progressive Field during the 2003 season.