{"id":838944,"date":"2026-08-02T02:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838944\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:18:20","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-ryan-ohearn-quad-to-il-expected-out-6-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838944\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Ryan O&#8217;Hearn (quad) to IL; expected out 6-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CINCINNATI &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> placed Ryan O\u2019Hearn on the 10-day injured list Saturday because of a strained left quad that is expected to cause him to miss six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">O\u2019Hearn pulled up and grabbed his left leg while running to first base on a groundout in the ninth inning on Friday night\u2019s 8-7 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>. He was helped off the field by manager Don Kelly and a member of the training staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pirates signed O\u2019Hearn to a two-year, $29 million free-agent contract in January. He is batting .270 with 17 home runs and 69 RBIs in 96 games. He missed two weeks in May because of a right quad injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">O\u2019Hearn has made 49 appearances at first base, 42 in right field and 17 as the designated hitter. He homered three times and set a Pirates single-game franchise record with 10 RBIs against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> on July 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In other moves, the Pirates recalled right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/isaac-mattson\/915667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/isaac-mattson\/915667\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Mattson<\/a> from Triple-A Indianapolis, activated catcher\/first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/rafael-flores-jr\/1405569\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/rafael-flores-jr\/1405569\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Flores Jr.<\/a> from the IL and optioned right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/antwone-kelly\/1437189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/antwone-kelly\/1437189\" target=\"_blank\">Antwone Kelly<\/a> to Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI &#8212; The Pittsburgh Pirates placed Ryan O\u2019Hearn on the 10-day injured list Saturday because of a strained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,411234,411235,85],"class_list":["post-838944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-247","tag-ryan-ohearn-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-829141","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}