BRADENTON, Fla. - Mitch Walding twice came through with two outs to tie the ballgame, but it was the Bradenton Marauders who had the last word as the Threshers suffered a 6-5 loss at McKechnie Field on Tuesday night.

Walding delivered three RBIs to up his season total to 52, which is just three short of a career-high. With two outs in the ninth inning, his hard single through the right side scored Aaron Altherr with the tying run, pushing the game to a 5-5 tie.

After his three hit night on Tuesday, Walding is now batting a scorching .411 (35-for-85) with runners in scoring position this season.

Bradenton (13-13) executed in the bottom half of the ninth to convert a leadoff walk into the decisive run against Ulises Joaquin (2-2), with Jerrick Suiter's RBI single sealing the deal.

Altherr finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored in the second game of his rehab assignment with Clearwater. The 25-year-old outfielder is working his way back from a March wrist surgery.

The start of the game was delayed a half an hour due to rain before Bradenton grabbed a pair of runs on a two-out, two-run double by Connor Joe in the first. Clearwater (16-10) got a run back in the next half inning when Chace Numata's fielder's choice grounder brought home Kyle Martin from third.

Clearwater took the lead an inning later, pushing home a pair with two outs.

With Scott Kingery at second, Altherr knocked a single to right, and right fielder Michael Suchy came up throwing toward second, allowing Kingery to race in to tie the game at two. Walding then came through by striking an opposite-field single to put Clearwater ahead.

Bradenton took advantage of its opportunities against Elniery Garcia, tying the game with an RBI grounder in the fourth and going ahead after a walk and a two-out RBI double by Jordan Luplow in the fifth.

Garcia allowed just four hits, and would not factor in the decision after Bradenton pushed across four runs in his six innings of work.

The Threshers rallied back again in the seventh inning against reliever Junior Lopez, after Jiandido Tromp and Carlos Tocci connected for consecutive singles to open the inning. Kingery then sacrificed them both to scoring position.

With two outs, Martin worked a walk to load the bases for Walding. Lopez got ahead of him with two strikes, but Walding managed to work a walk and push home the tying run, knotting the game up at four.

The Marauders came through with two outs again in the bottom half, when Luplow knocked a single through the right side to score Tito Polo with the go-ahead run.

Down to their final out, it was Walding who came through for the Threshers in the ninth by ripping a single to right for his third hit and third RBI of the ballgame.

The series concludes on Wednesday morning, when the Threshers and Marauders face off for the final time in the regular season with first pitch at 10:30 a.m. Luke Leftwich (1-2) will toe the rubber opposite JT Brubaker (1-3), and the game will be broadcast live on threshersbaseball.com and the TuneIn radio app beginning at 10:15 a.m.