With a thunderstorm drenching Target Field about an hour before first pitch Saturday night, the chances looked slim the Twins and Milwaukee Brewers would actually play.
But the rain subsided long enough for them to start, and it was just light enough to keep playing when it started to fall again in the fourth inning.
The Twins blew a four-run lead in the fifth, but they limited the damage from there thanks to the bullpen for a 6-4 victory, their second in a row over the NL Central leaders.
"I think that was just everybody's mind-set, that we were going to get this game in," manager Rocco Baldelli said.
During a break in the rain, the Twins batted around in the fourth to grab a 4-0 lead when Jorge Polanco started the rally with a one-out double. With the bases loaded, Miguel Sano doubled to left-center to score Polanco and Josh Donaldson. Brewers starter Adrian Houser hit Twins shortstop Andrelton Simmons with a pitch with the bases loaded to score Sano, and a bases-loaded walk to Luis Arraez drove in Brent Rooker.
"We knew it was going to rain," Polanco said. "We just started to put some runs on and tried to win the game."
That was in case the game got called early. But Milwaukee's bats awoke for the first time this series in the fifth with four runs off rookie lefthander Charlie Barnes.
