{"id":729015,"date":"2026-06-11T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729015\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:20:08","slug":"rookie-tyler-callihan-goes-deep-off-shohei-ohtani-adds-a-3-run-shot-late-as-pittsburgh-pirates-top-los-angeles-dodgers-9-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729015\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Tyler Callihan goes deep off Shohei Ohtani, adds a 3-run shot late as Pittsburgh Pirates top Los Angeles Dodgers 9-8"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Tyler Callihan<\/a> hit the first two home runs of his career, a solo shot off Shohei Ohtani<\/a> in the fourth inning and a go-ahead, three-run blast off reliever Kyle Hurt<\/a> in the eighth as the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> rallied past the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> 9-8 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Ohtani gave up season highs in runs (four), earned runs (three), and hits (six) in 6 2\/3 innings as his ERA ticked up to 1.06. The four-time MVP struck out six and walked three before being removed following Brandon Lowe<\/a>\u2019s two-out, two-run double in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Ohtani hit a two-run homer off Gregory Soto<\/a> in the ninth, his 12th of the season, to draw the Dodgers within one. Soto retired the next two batters for his ninth save.<\/p>\n

A Los Angeles comeback hardly seemed necessary when Ohtani exited with a 6-3 lead, seemingly in position to win his fifth straight start.<\/p>\n

Callihan, a utility player, sent a fastball from Ohtani 427 feet over the right-field stands at PNC Park. With two on and nobody out in the eighth, Callihan pounced on a changeup from Hurt (1-1) to give the Pirates their first lead at 7-6. Spencer Horwitz<\/a> added a two-run shot later in the inning off Jack Dreyer<\/a> as Pittsburgh ended a four-game skid.<\/p>\n

Evan Sisk<\/a> (1-0) got the final out of the eighth. <\/p>\n

Ryan Ward<\/a> hit his first career grand slam for the Dodgers, a liner to the seats in right in the sixth that gave Los Angeles a 6-1 lead.<\/p>\n

The Pirates, who gave up 10 runs in the seventh inning of a blowout loss on Tuesday, responded in the eighth to win for just the third time this season when trailing after seven innings.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The series wraps up on Thursday. Justin Wrobleski<\/a> (7-2, 2.62 ERA) starts for Los Angeles against Pittsburgh\u2019s Mitch Keller<\/a> (5-3, 4.81).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Will Graves, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Tyler Callihan hit the first two home runs of his career, a solo shot off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-729015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}