Jose Osuna started his first major league game Friday night, playing right field in the series opener against the New York Yankees at PNC Park.
The Pirates promoted Osuna in the series this week against the St. Louis Cardinals to take the roster spot of Starling Marte, who received an 80-game suspension after testing positive for the steroid Nandrolone. Osuna made his major league debut Tuesday.
“My first at-bat, I was walking to home plate thinking about, a lot of things happened before I signed, when I was young,” Osuna said. “It’s a dream, you know? It’s a dream for everybody to play in the big leagues.