SAN ANTONIO- Lefthander Pete Martinez was brilliant in leading the Apaches to their first victory, Warren Stehn had timely hitting to lead the Wranglers to a come-from-behind victory, and Pericos de Puebla moved into first place in Sunday’s Texas Winter League Action.

APACHES 6 - ALAMOS 0

Pete Martinez was full of anxiety the night before his start against the Alamos.

Who could blame him? When the lefty played in the Texas Summer League in 2014, the team he was placed on was 0-14 despite his respectable pitching which placed him among league leaders in starts, earned run average and, for better or worse, losses.

Now in the Texas Winter League, his team had gotten off to a 0-3 start, and he would get the start against the first-place Alamos Sunday morning.

But in that game, anxiety turned to excellence. Martinez struck out the first six batters he faced and shut out the Alamos through four innings en route to a 6-0 victory.

“Martinez threw more strikes and was able to get his off-speed pitches over,” said TWL pitching coach Les Lancaster.

“I just concentrated on throwing strikes today and focused what I had to do to get out of the innings,” Martinez said. “I cleared the mechanism. I think I realized who I was on the mound.”

If that wasn’t enough, the remaining pitchers Brooks Carey called on also shut out the Alamos (2-1-1) to hand them their first loss of the season. Hidekutsu Mitani retired the Alamos in order in the fifth, striking out Shintaro Yokata in the process. Noaki Hashimoto brushed off a fingernail problem and bad start on Friday to throw a hitless shutout inning, and while Fumitaka Sakaguchi wasn’t necessarily pretty, his shutout seventh was dramatic.

Chuck Shapiro greeted Sakaguchi with a double to right field and went to third when Dr. Conrad Woolsey reached on an infield single.

With the shutout in jeopardy, the 23-year-old right-hander came back to strike out Bobby Orozco before inducing Yokata to loft a fly ball to right fielder Nate Lewellyn, who then threw out the Alamos’ centerfielder at the plate for the 9-2 double play that ended the game and cemented the shutout.

The Apaches (1-3) took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Alamos starter Gilbert Berrera walked three batters, hit another, and, with the bases loaded and one out, Mario Apolinar hit a ground ball to third baseman Andrew Carmardella that the slugger from Dominican University fielded flawlessly but first baseman Joseph Charles dropped ensuing throw to score Jacob Fabry for a 2-0 lead.

Kinnosuke Kamiya and Hariyuki Kawazu led off the bottom of the second with bloop hits and scored on ground balls hit by Kori Melo and Fabry to give the Apaches a 4-0 lead, and Kawazu drove in his team’s final two runs with his third hit of the game to chase relief pitcher Hikaru Ogawa in the fifth.

Martinez (1-0) allowed only two hits and walked one while striking out eight batters.

Barrera (0-1), who fanned eight in his first start of the year, struck out three but walked the same amount in his two inning stint. The southpaw allowed two hits and four runs, three of which were earned.

WRANGLERS 7 - CAPITALS 6

Warren Stehn started a 3-run Wranglers rally to tie the game in the top of the fifth with an RBI single in the top of the fifth, then collected the game winning hit with two out in the following inning for a 7-6 victory against the Capitals at Nelson Wolff Stadium Sunday afternoon.

In the first game played this season under sunny and warm skies thanks to a 2 p.m. start to wait out a drizzle earlier this morning, the Capitals (2-2) had a 6-2 lead following a 4-run bottom of the third highlighted by a bases loaded single from Greg Toliver that plated three runs when Stehn, playing right field, misplayed the hit off his glove. Kazuke Nakayama followed with a single to left three hitters later to plate Toliver.

But the ironic circumstance was forgotten when the Wranglers rallied for the game’s final five runs. First Aaron Wells drove in Jake Taylor with a two out hit off reliever Ken Iida in the top of the fourth, then Stehn, Jack Morrow, and Joshua Arriaga all collected run-scoring hits off the left-hander in the fifth to tie the score.

Stehn then won the game with his single to right off reliever Vance Keller (0-1) in the sixth. First Yusuke Oyama reached on an error with one out, and Steve Taft followed with an infield single.

It was at this point the two players attempted a double steal, but newly inserted catcher Takashiro Kaneko threw Oyama out at third.

But Taft wound up at second base and was able to elude Kaneko’s tag on Stehn’s hit when Nakayama’s throw from right field sailed up the third base line.

Nakayama almost tied the game himself when he led off the bottom of the sixth against newly inserted right-hander Chihaya Sakuria with a long double that nearly left the park. But three ground ball outs could only advance him to third, and the Wranglers would not reach base in the seventh against Reid Hoffler, who earned his first save.

Chris Pacheco (1-0) earned the victory with a 5-inning start in his TWL debut. The lefty from Incarnate Word struck out the side in the second inning and was just effective enough to keep the Wranglers (2-1-1) in striking distance while allowing six hits, six runs, three walks and striking out four.

Tomohiro Yamashita pitched the first three innings for the Capitals. Though he got off to a rocky start by allowing Oyama and Taft to begin the game with extra base hits, and then allowed Taft to score on an errant pickoff throw, he would settle down to allow only a Stehn infield single in the third to the final 10 batters he faced.

The Caps tied it in the bottom of the first when Brandon Thomas doubled to left, Connor Battaglia singled to right and, following an errant pickoff throw by Pacheco, scored on Toliver’s sacrifice fly to center field.

PERICOS de PUEBLA 13 - TEJANOS 6

Thomas Shull, Jason Merjano, and R.J. Perucki all continued their hot hitting with multi-hit games as the Parrots (3-1) moved into first place with a lopsided 13-6 victory against the Tejanos (1-3).

Lefthander Joshua Ferrell (1-0) pitched the first four innings of the five inning game, scattering three hits and striking out seven while allowing only a single unearned run in his first TWL start.

Hiroki Taniguchi (0-1) started for the Tejanos, allowing nine runs in 2 1/3 innings. Cesar Pintor also had two hits in a losing cause to raise his batting average to .500.

Shull, Merjano, and R.J. Perucki are all now batting above .500.