NEW YORK - It was a nasty, windy, rainy day in New York. By late afternoon, the skies had cleared over Yankee Stadium, and a rainbow shone briefly over the center field scoreboard.
Before the Twins played the Yankees on Tuesday night, a Japanese reporter showed manager Ron Gardenhire a picture of the rainbow.
"I asked her what was at the end of the rainbow," Gardenhire said. "She said, 'A victory.' I said, 'That's the way to think.'"
When the Twins had finished coming back from a 4-0 deficit in the eighth inning to beat the Yankees, 5-4, in 10 innings, Gardenhire delayed his postgame interviews for a moment to hug the reporter.
It turns out the rainbow wasn't symbolic only of victory; it also mimicked the soft arc of the game's biggest hit.
Delmon Young's three-run bloop double off David Robertson with two outs in the eighth gave the Twins a rare triumph in the Bronx, provided the latest reminder of just how many pivotal moments, and how many storylines, one baseball game can contain.
Brian Duensing, crushed twice in October by the Yankees, survived two early home runs before pitching five shutout innings to keep his teammates within a Manhattan cab ride of the lead.
Tsuyoshi Nishioka failed twice to bunt in the 10th, then lined a single that led to the game-winning run.