Watch: Pirates infielder Rodolfo Castro loses cellphone while sliding into third base

The 23-year-old native of the Dominican Republic was called up from Triple-A on Tuesday and attempted to explain his blunder following the contest, a 6-4 loss to Arizona.

"I don't think there's any professional ballplayer that would ever go out there with any intentions of taking a cellphone," Castro said, through an interpreter. "It's horrible it happened to me. Obviously, it was very unintentional.''

The incident came after Castro drew a walk in the top of the fourth inning and advanced to third on a single by highly-touted rookie Oneil Cruz.

"My first day back, if I was to be the center of attention, I would want it to be helping the team win, but never in this form," Castro said. "This is definitely something that was an accident, a mistake, something I'm going to learn from. But definitely something I didn't mean to happen."