CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ben Lively and Jhonkensy Noel struck early and Jose Ramirez and Angel Martinez struck late as the Guardians outlasted the Twins and two rain delays Thursday at Progressive Field. The quartet led the Guardians to a 4-3 win in 10 innings at Progressive Field in a game that was delayed for over two hours by rain. The win gave the Guardians a 6-4 record on their longest homestand of the season. After the Twins took a 3-2 lead in the 10th on a sacrifice fly by Johan Bride, the Guardians struck for two runs in the bottom of the 10th to win it. Ramirez drove in automatic runner Gabriel Arias with a single to tie the score and pinch-hitter Martinez drove in Ramirez with the winning run on a single to right. Ramirez stole second to put himself in scoring position. It was the 250th steal of his career, making him the only player in club history with 250 steals and 250 (260) homers. Lively threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings and Noel hit a 450-foot homer to stake Cleveland to an early 2-0 lead. The Guardians missed a chance to win it in the ninth when they loaded the bases only to have Jhoan Duran strike out Bo Naylor and Steven Kwan to end the threat. The Guardians are 13-4 against the Twins since the start of the 2024 season. It is the eighth time they have beaten the Twins in walk-off fashion since 2022. The Guardians gave Lively a quick 1-0 lead on Kyle Manzardo’s two-out single in the first. Twins starter Simeon Woods Richardson walked Arias with one out. Arias took second on a ground out and scored on Manzardo’s single to center. Manzardo has become a pain for the Twins in fewer than two years in the big leagues. He beat them Tuesday with a walk-off homer in the ninth, and entered Thursday’s game hitting .435 (10 for 23) with three homers and six RBI in eight career games. The Guards’ lead grew emphatically to 2-0 with Noel’s long homer with one out in the fourth. The 450-foot drive landed three fourths of the way up the bleachers in left field after leaving Noel’s bat at 115.3 mph. Asked how it felt to hit a ball that far, Noel, nicknamed Big Christmas, said, “That felt normal for me.” Noel’s second homer of the season (both came on this homestand) came off an 86 mph changeup on a 1-1 pitch from Woods Richardson. Lively pitched out of trouble in the second and fourth innings. In the second, Ty France singled and went to third on Brooks Lee’s double to start the inning. Harrison Bader sent a bouncer to Will Wilson at third, who threw home to Austin Hedges to erase France, who was running on contact. Lively ended the inning by striking out Kody Clemens and getting Christian Vazquez on a ground out to protect the 1-0 lead. In the fourth, France doubled off the left field wall. Kwan caught the ball as it came off the wall and fired a strike to Arias at second. It appeared Arias tagged France before he reached the bag, but second base umpire Ben May called him safe. The Guardians couldn’t challenge because they’d lost a challenge in the second inning when Daniel Schneemann was called out on an attempted steal of second base. Lively retired Lee on a fly ball to left, but Bader’s ground out moved France to third. Lively ended the threat by getting Clemens on a fly ball to center. The Twins out-hit the Guardians, 13-6, in the game. At one point, they were being out-hit, 10-2. “That just shows singles won’t beat us,” said Lively. “I had a couple situations today where guys were on base with one or no outs. The only thing I thought, he’s not going to touch home plate.” The Twins, after a brief 17-minute rain delay at the end of the sixth inning, tied the score with two runs in the seventh. Jakob Junis, who relieved Lively with two out in the sixth, gave up a leadoff single to Bader in the seventh. Clemens went down on a fly ball to center as Bader tagged and went to second. Bader’s gamble paid off as Vazquez singled to center to cut the Guardians’ lead to 2-1. Hunter Gaddis relieved and was met with consecutive singles by Edouard Julien and Carlos Correa to bring Vazquez home with the tying run. Gaddis walked Trevor Larnach to load the bases and bring France to the plate. France, 6 for 12 in the first three games of the series, lined out to right to end the inning. The game was delayed for a second time in the top of the eighth. The Twins had two on and two out against Joey Cantillo. When play resumed, Tim Herrin relieved Cantillo and walked pinch-hitter Ryan Jeffers to load the bases. He ended the inning by getting Correa on a pop up. In the sixth, Schneemann robbed Byron Buxton of extra bases with a great catch against the wall in right center. Schneemann and Noel hit the wall at the same time with Schneemann making the catch. “I couldn’t tell if I hit the wall or I hit Jhonkensy,” said Schneemann. “I just knew I hit something. I felt a little more padding so I figured it was the wall. I didn’t want to hit Jhonkensy because he’s a big man.” The delays lasted from 3 p.m. to 3:17 p.m. and 3:49 p.m. to 5:55 p.m. The two delays lasted 2 hours, 23 minutes — 17 for the first one and 2:06 for the second. Kolby Allard (1-0) pitched the 10th for a win despite allowing a run. He was the sixth pitcher manager Stephen Vogt used in the game. “That was a huge performance by Kolby,” said Vogt. “He comes in with the ghost runner on second and you assume he’s going to score more often than not. But to shut it down after that, was a huge performance.” The Guardians open a three-game series against the Toronto at Rogers Centre on Friday night. LHP Logan Allen (1-2, 4.21) will start for the Guards, while RHP Chris Bassitt (2-2, 2.62) starts for Toronto. Game time is 7:07 p.m. CLEGuardians.TV, WTAM/1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians radio network will carry the game.