Blue Jays 10, Indians 8: J.P. Arencibia went 3-for-4 with two home runs as Toronto clubbed five homers to break out of its season-opening offensive funk and avoid a three-game sweep against visiting Cleveland.

Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Colby Rasmus also went deep for the Blue Jays, who scored three total runs in dropping each of the first two games for the first time since 2004. Steve Delabar (1-0) came on in relief of starter Mark Buehrle and got the final two outs of the sixth to pick up the victory.

Brett Myers (0-1) yielded seven runs and seven hits – including four of the Blue Jays’ homers – over five-plus innings, departing after giving up Arencibia’s second home run. Carlos Santana and Mark Reynolds connected on back-to-back solo shots in the fourth to pace the Indians’ offense.

Arencibia’s first blast staked Toronto to a two-run lead in the second inning while his second solo home run helped the Blue Jays jump back in front 7-6. Rasmus followed one batter later with a solo shot and Emilio Bonifacio tacked on an insurance run following an error by Reynolds at first base.

Reynolds’ RBI single in the seventh and Jason Kipnis’ run-scoring double to shallow left in the eighth trimmed the Blue Jays’ lead to one run, but two fine defensive plays from Bonifacio limited the damage and a fielder’s choice groundout by Bautista pushed Toronto’s margin back to 10-8. Casey Janssen, the Blue Jays' fifth reliever of the game, secured the win with a flawless ninth for his first save.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Toronto posted five home runs in one game for the first time since hitting six against the Milwaukee Brewers on June 19. Bautista, Encarnacion and Rasmus combined for five of the homers in that game. … The Blue Jays entered Thursday batting.138 (9-for-65), but finished 9-for-34. … Bonifacio played a key role in the win, hustling his way into a double on a fairly routine ground ball up the middle in the sixth and scoring the Blue Jays’ ninth run when Reynolds was charged with an error. In the eighth, he dove to keep a ground ball in the infield to keep the tying run at third with two outs and made a strong throw from shallow center field on a grounder hit by Santana to help reliever Darren Oliver out of a bases-loaded jam.