HOUSTON — Major League Baseball said it would investigate an incident in which a Houston Astros executive was said to have shouted at three female reporters in an “offensive and frightening” manner as he praised the team’s closer, Roberto Osuna, who was suspended for domestic violence last year.

In the Astros’ clubhouse after their pennant-clinching win over the Yankees on Saturday night, Brandon Taubman, the team’s assistant general manager, turned to the female reporters and yelled repeatedly, “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so glad we got Osuna!,” punctuating the second sentence with an expletive, according to a Sports Illustrated column published Monday. The Astros have been criticized heavily for acquiring Osuna last season while he was serving a 75-game suspension for domestic violence.

“Domestic violence is extraordinarily serious and everyone in baseball must use care to not engage in any behavior — whether intentional or not — that could be construed as minimizing the egregiousness of an act of domestic violence,” M.L.B. said in a statement Tuesday. “We became aware of this incident through the Sports Illustrated article. The Astros have disputed Sports Illustrated’s characterization of the incident. MLB will interview those involved before commenting further.”

After the column was published, reporters from other news outlets — including Yahoo Sports and The Houston Chronicle — said on Twitter that they had witnessed Taubman’s behavior and corroborated the Sports Illustrated account. Also, an article in The Chronicle said that no interviews were being conducted during the time of Taubman’s outburst.