In the seconds after he sliced a hit the opposite way into left field, bringing home the game-winning run, DaShawn Keirsey Jr. was thinking about his mother, Angela.

She was sitting in the stands, in town from California to watch her son play. Given an opportunity late in Sunday’s game, he more than made the most of it with her in attendance.

“That was the first thought in my mind was like, ‘Oh, that’s so cool,’” Keirsey said about sending the Twins to a walk-off win in front of his mom on Mother’s Day.

The hit, which came in the 10th inning and brought home Brooks Lee, lifted the Twins to a 7-6 win over the Giants on Sunday at Target Field. It was the Twins’ eighth-straight victory as they swept their homestand, bringing them above .500 for the first time all season.

This run has featured contributions from everybody, a different hero each day.

Sunday, it was Keirsey’s turn. The outfielder has received limited at-bats this season, often coming into games late to pinch run or as a defensive replacement in the outfield. When he stepped to the plate in the 10th inning, he was in an 0-for-17 stretch, looking for his first hit since April 16.

“These are the types of moments that hit you. You feel the emotion for the player,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “He’s going to win a lot of games for his with his glove, with his legs. That’s what he does. But to stay sharp and to keep steadily working every day at the plate when you’re not getting that many at-bats and then get your moment and come through, it’s very satisfying, I bet.”

It sure was.

Keirsey, who said he gifted his mother his pink cleats right off his feet, said he wasn’t trying to go the other way — his intention was to just hit the ball hard.

He accomplished just that, leading to a frenzied mob by his teammates in honor of his first-career walk-off. As he conducted a postgame interview on the field, he was doused in liquid by first baseman Ty France.

“It’s a good feeling,” Keirsey said. “I feel like part of my game is obviously coming in, defense, base run, it’s not the most glorifying position. But for me, whatever I can do each and every day to help this team win. A lot of times it is coming in, stealing a base, trying to score a run, making a play on defense. It’s all rewarding in its own way. Just, at the plate you have a little more eyes on you.”

His heroics came moments after the Twins’ (21-20) rallied to tie the game up with their automatic runner, France, coming around to score on a Ryan Jeffers groundball to third.

The Giants (24-17) had tied the game up late, scoring a run in the eighth inning to eventually force extra innings after the two teams traded leads earlier in the game.

Starter Pablo López went six innings and gave up four runs, minimizing the damage as best he could in a start in which he wasn’t his sharpest. At the time he departed the game, the Twins were leading, thanks in part to Lee hitting a two-run home run and Royce Lewis collecting his first hit of the season, an RBI knock as part of a two-run sixth inning.

“It’s just so much more fun to always feel like we always have a chance,” López said. “The way that we’ve been playing lately, it’s just like we’re always engaged. We know that we’re just within a few at-bats, a few mistakes from the opposition to do what we did. I’m so happy for DaShawn to get that walk-off knock for mom.”