{"id":434459,"date":"2023-04-27T02:47:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T06:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434459"},"modified":"2023-04-27T01:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T05:30:17","slug":"pittsburghs-drew-maggi-plays-1st-mlb-game-at-33","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pittsburghs-drew-maggi-plays-1st-mlb-game-at-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh&#8217;s Drew Maggi plays 1st MLB game at 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Maggi finally made it to the MLB at 33 and will remember today forever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Drew Maggi receives a standing ovation during his MLB debut for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Pirates<\/a> after 1,155 minor league games! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aJXSsO7urf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aJXSsO7urf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1651398957094821889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The infielder (33) participated in 1,155 matches across thirteen minor league years. Still, finally, Pittsburgh Pirates selected him a few days ago, and today he entered the game as a pinch hitter in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> inning as the Pirates trashed the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-1.<\/p>\n<p>Drew got a pinch strike for Andrew McCutchen with 1 out in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> period, and everyone cheered him \u2013 his teammates and the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really can&#8217;t (put it into words),&#8221; Maggi said in an interview on the field after the victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t explain how I was feeling on the pitch. I didn&#8217;t even know what to do. You guys were supporting me. I don&#8217;t know; I never forecasted that.<\/p>\n<p>Through the adventure, I thought I&#8217;d make my opener, which would be normal at bat. Certainly unique, but the crowd cheering my name, I got my family on the stands, my 3 brothers and a sister at the house. I mean, this is beyond expectations. Thank you to each one of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Maggi finally made it to the MLB at 33 and will remember today forever. Drew Maggi receives a standing ovation during his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":434460,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,18787],"news_category":[16708,14084],"gn_keywords":[19040,18788,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Maggi debuted in Major League Baseball at 33 years old.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434459"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434459"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}