SAN ANTONIO- Bobby Orozco threw a one hit shutout while Forest Moore and Justin Klipp both had impressive five inning outings in Wednesday’s Texas Winter League baseball games.

ALAMOS 12 - PERICOS 0

Bobby Orozco appears to be the ultimate underdog of the Texas Winter League.

Let’s face it, when scouts look for talent, their idea of a right-handed pitcher is generally someone who stands taller than Orozco at 5-7. And coming from the Pecos League, his professional statistics are inflated in a league where any earned run average under 7.00 is viewed to be somewhat impressive.

But Orozco (2-0) put together perhaps one of the top pitching performances of the TWL season when he threw a complete game, seven inning 12-0 shutout of the Pericos (3-3) at Missions Academy Field One.

He did it by throwing strikes and consistently getting ahead of hitters in the count. The Vista, California native allowed only one hit, an opposite field Jason Merjano ground ball double down the third base line to lead off the second inning, and hit one batter while striking out five hitters. Orozco did not walk anyone, incredibly throwing only 19 balls in 76 pitches.

Which is more than one can say for the Pericos pitchers. They not only walked 10 batters, they hit six others with pitches. Throw in four errors and it is safe to say the Pericos did not have their best game.

In fact, the Alamos (3-2-1) had a 5-0 lead going into the fifth inning without the benefit of a hit. Four walks and a hit batsman off starter Young Kyu Lee (0-2) led to two runs in the first, and four walks off Rene Rubio and two errors led to three more scores in the second.

Phil Rowland got the first hit of the game for the Alamos in the bottom of the fifth with a sharp single to left and would eventually score the sixth run on a sacrifice fly from Mike Shada , but these were the only highlights of a 4-run inning off newcomer Nick Escobar.

Shada’s 2-run triple to center highlighted a 3-run 6th off Sho Nagashima.

The Alamos’ victory put them in a first-place tie with the Wranglers.

TEJANOS 3 - WRANGLERS 1

Forrest Moore and Hiroki Taniguchi combined to allow only three hits while Daiki Miyazaki and Ryan DiMascio both had two hits as the Tejanos won their second game of the season against the Wranglers.

DiMascio’s long double to right centerfield off Wranglers’ starter Justin Klipp scored Miyazaki with the game’s first run, while Miyazaki’s double over the head of left fielder Eric Garcia plate Gabe Garza with the game’s final run to secure the victory for the Tejanos (2-4).

Klipp and Moore were quick and efficient in battling to a 1-1 stalemate through five innings. Though Moore was coming off a three inning stint where he walked five batters, the left-hander from Mississippi State was very effective changing speeds and threw his slow curve for strikes. While he would only strike out one hitter in five innings at Nelson Wolff Stadium on Wednesday, he would also only walk a single hitter.

He was touched for a run in the second when Jack Morrow led off with a single to left. Jake Taylor then popped the ball up in front of home plate, but Garza couldn’t find the ball in the sun and wound up letting it fall, though he rebounded to force Morrow at second for an unusual 2-6 force out.

Moore then hit Motoki Tanaka and allowed a sharp single to right to load the bases before Eric Garcia hit a grounder to the back of the infield to score Taylor with the tying run.

Klipp, who used the TWL to land in the American Association for the past two seasons after a six year hiatus from the game, would counter by retiring the final seven Tejanos in his spot start. Considered royalty by the TWL brass, Klipp has spent the last two seasons commuting from his Austin home to make spot starts for whatever TWL team needs him to stay in shape for the regular baseball season. The righty from Cal State-Fullerton allowed only three hits in five innings and struck out five without walking a hitter.

But he was relieved by Chihaya Sakari in the sixth, and though the Japanese submariner pitched a scoreless sixth inning, in the seventh he was the victim of balls with eyes and his own defense.

With one out, Warlin Garcia hit a soft double down the third base line that Jake Taylor, manning the hot corner for the Wranglers (3-2-1), presumed was foul. Sakari (0-1) then hit Garza with his next pitch.

Curtis Batten, who had not collected a hit this season prior to the game, got his second in the contest with a sharp single to right to load the bases and bring up Rolandis Reed.

Reed was 0 for 9 on the season after hitting .125 in the 2014 TWL, his first action as a baseball player since Little League. But the 34-year-old from Wichita was able to slap Sakari’s 2-2 delivery to second baseman Aaron Wells, who threw to shortstop Steve Taft to retire Batten for the second out.

But Reed, a former high school football defensive back, beat out the relay to first, and the Tejanos had a 2-1 lead.

Hiroki Taniguchi (1-1) pitched the final two innings for the victory, allowing no hits or walks and striking out two.

APACHES 7 - CAPITALS 2

Kori Melo went three for three to give him seven straight hits and Pete Martinez continued to impress by limiting the Capitals (3-3) to only one run in five innings to give the Apaches (3-3) with their third straight victory.

Martinez (2-0) scattered five hits and fanned five while walking only one.

The Capitals’ Kazuki Nakayama had three hits to raise his batting average a league leading .563.

In addition to Melo, Apaches’ third baseman Jonathan Grishman had three hits and is now batting .500.

Melo is batting .526.