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Winter Leagues: Jose Osuna Homers; Marte Leaves After Hit-By-Pitch

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In Venezuela on Tuesday night, Jose Osuna hit his first home run of the winter, a solo shot to lead-off the fourth inning. He finished 1-for-4 on the day with two strikeouts. Osuna is 5-for-27 (.185) through seven games. He played his fourth game at third base and handled two putouts and one grounder. He has two errors on eight total chances.

In the Dominican, Starling Marte was hit by a pitch in the first inning and left for a defensive replacement after running the bases. While there was no update during or after the game last night, the last time he was hit by a pitch he ran the bases, was replaced on defense, then played the next day, so it could be the team being cautious. I’m sure we will either find out more soon or he will just be back in the lineup tonight.

UPDATE: 9:22 AM: Escogido just announced that Marte left due to the flu, so apparently it had nothing to do with getting hit minutes earlier.

Pablo Reyes went 1-for-4 with a single. He’s batting .247/.320/.315 through 28 games.

Anderson Feliz went 1-for-4 with a single, giving him a .254 average through 25 games.

In Mexico, Carlos Munoz went 1-for-4 with an RBI single. After coming through with the go-ahead hit in each of his last two games, Munoz tied the score in the eighth inning with his single. His team would go on to win 6-5 in the ninth. He is batting .260/.356/.368 through 38 games.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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