CLEVELAND, Ohio — It was a long day’s journey into night at Progressive Field on Tuesday. Most of it had to do with a nearly rainless rain delay that lasted over three hours. Then there was the game which lasted until the bottom of the ninth nning when slumping Kyle Manzardo ended things with a leadoff homer to give the Guardians a 2-1 victory over the Twins. Manzardo’s first walk-off hit came off Louis Varland’s 1-1 pitch and landed in the right field seats. It ended Cleveland’s three-game losing streak as what remained of an announced crowd of 14,312 celebrated. Guardians starter Tanner Bibee opened the game with 11 straight outs. Carlos Correa ruined the vibe with a two-out double in the fourth, but Bibee came back and retired Trevor Larnach to end the innng and protect the 1-0 lead thanks to a Bo Naylor homer. The lead didn’t make it through the fifth. Ty France started the inning with a homer to center field on Bibee’s 1-1 pitch to tie the score. It was France’s third homer and the ninth Bibee has allowed this year. The nine homers are the second most allowed by a pitcher in the big leagues this season. The Twins kept the pressure on Bibee after France’s homer with consecutive one-out singles by Brooks Lee and Harrison Bader. It appeared Bibee and first baseman Carlos Santana had retired Bader on his squibber to the third-base side of the mound thanks to a nice pick by Santana. The Twins, however, challenged the play and the out call was overturned. Bibee bounced back to strikeout Christian Vazquez and retire Edouard Julien on a dangerous-looking drive to right that Jhonkensy Noel caught on the track. Naylor gave the Guardians a 1-0 lead with a leadoff homer in the third. He won a nine-pitch duel with Twins starter Chris Paddack as he sent his third homer of the season into the right fieled seats. Steven Kwan added another jolt to the inning, but he hit it to the wrong park of the park. Center fielder Byron Buxton tracked down his long drive near the in right center and made a sliding catch on the warning track to rob Kwan. Kwan went hitless Tuesday to end his 11-game hit streak. The Guards, outscored 35-12 in their previous four games, missed a chance to extend the lead in the fourth. Manzardo, in a 4 for 20 skid, singled to start the inning. Santana walked, but Noel, ahead in the count at 3-1, grounded into a double play. Daniel Schneemann ended the inning with a fly ball to center. The Guardians’ defense made an imprint on the game in the seventh. France opened the inning with a hard-hit single to left. He made a wide turn at the bag and was erased as he scrambled back to first on quick relays by Kwan and shortstop Gabriel Arias. Twins manager Rocco Baldelli argued with crew chief Andy Fletcher that Santana blocked France from tagging first, but the out stood. Bibee was done after the seventh. He held the Twins to one run on five hits in seven innings to become the first Cleveland pitcher to go seven innings this season. It was his second consecutive quality start and lowered his career ERA against the Twins to 2.51 in eight starts. The seven innings helped ease the workload on Cleveland’s taxed bullpen as well. Emmanuel Clase worked the ninth and was credted with the win. For the struggling Clase, it was just his second appearance of this 10-game homestand. The start of the game was delayed by 3 hours and 10 minutes. For most of the delay, it never rained, but the Guardians were worried about wasting Bibee in a rain-shortened start. As it was the game, scheduled for 6:10 p.m., started at 9:20 p.m. RHP Luis Ortiz (2-3, 5.96) vs. RHP Pablo Lopez (2-1, 2.08) Wednesday at 6:10 p.m. CLEGuardians.TV, WTAM/1100, WMMS/100.7 FM, WARF and Gardians radio netwrk will carry the game.