CLEVELAND — As the grounds crew emerged to remove the tarp from the field, Blind Melon’s “No Rain,” an appropriately-titled song for the occasion, played over the loudspeaker.

Nearly two hours after the Twins-Guardians game was supposed to start, the tarp was taken off the field — for the first time. By that point, rain had fallen for about a minute. As the skies darkened, the grounds crew pulled the tarp back over the field a few minutes later as managers Rocco Baldelli and Stephen Vogt conferred.

This time it actually rained hard — though that lasted for about five or six minutes and the two teams could have been through a majority of the game by that point. The grounds crew was met by Nickelback’s “Hero,” when it removed the covering from the field.

Once the game finally started, the smattering of fans still left in attendance were treated to a pitcher’s duel, which the Guardians won 2-1 on Tuesday night at Progressive field. Kyle Manzardo hit a walk-off home run off Louie Varland in a game that did not start until 9:20 p.m. local time, 3:10 after it was scheduled to begin.

“Their guys threw the ball well and we had a tough time putting together enough really good at-bats in a row to score some runs,” Baldelli said. “It was one of those well-pitched games on both sides. You’ve just got to try to muscle your way through it.”

That home run, which snapped the Twins’ (13-17) four-game winning streak, came after pitchers  Chris Paddack, Brock Stewart, Griffin Jax and Jhoan Duran had combined to keep the Guardians off the board since the third inning.

Paddack threw five innings, giving up just one run. It came on the ninth pitch of a battle with catcher Bo Naylor, who saw four straight fastballs before finally hitting the fifth out of the ballpark to give the Guardians (16-13) a 1-0 lead in the third inning.

The starter ran into some trouble an inning later, allowing the first two runners to reach base, but was able to wiggle his way out of it with a perfectly-timed Jhonkensy Noel double play ball and then a weakly-hit fly ball to Byron Buxton in center after a visit from pitching coach Pete Maki.

“Pete just said, ‘We’re going to attack Noel kind of down and away,” Paddack said. “We literally spoke it into existence of getting that groundball.”

That effort meant the Twins were trailing by just one when Ty France stepped to the plate to lead off the fifth inning. The first baseman took the third pitch of his at-bat — a fastball from Tanner Bibee — and sent it out to right-center, tying the game.

It was the only run that Bibee, who started his night by retiring 11 straight hitters, gave up in his seven-inning effort. Bibee allowed five hits in his effort, two to France. After his second, which led off the seventh, France made an aggressive turn around first base and was thrown out trying to get back to the bag. Baldelli came out to plead a case for obstruction but was unsuccessful.

France singled in the ninth, too, giving the Twins a glimmer of hope, but DaShawn Keirsey Jr., in to pinch run for him, was thrown out by Naylor trying to steal on the first pitch of Jonah Bride’s at-bat. Bride then popped up and Manzardo’s home run ended the game just moments later.

“It was a good game. We didn’t come up with a win,” shortstop Carlos Correa said. “Come back (Thursday) and keep up the same spirits. We’ve been playing great ball for the last wee. We’ve just got to keep building