{"id":252539,"date":"2026-07-26T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:34:24","slug":"buc-notes-hr-magic-ross-1st-ohearn-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252539\/","title":{"rendered":"Buc Notes-HR magic, Ross 1st, O\u2019Hearn grand slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 Pirates scored the most runs in a game since the All-Star Break Sunday holding on to win the final game of the Cubs series 8-7 at PNC Park. <\/p>\n<p>You can do magic<\/p>\n<p>Esmerlyn Valdez hit his 14th home run to lead off the second inning starting the Bucs scoring and added an RBI single in the fifth for his 11th multi-RBI game of his rookie season. He also made a diving catch to his right to start the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>1st start bomb<\/p>\n<p>A former NAIA player and non-roster invitee by the Pirates before Spring Training, catcher Shawn Ross made his first MLB start. In his second MLB at bat, Ross hit a 438-foot home run into the second deck in left field to give the Pirates a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>2-time granny<\/p>\n<p>For the second time this month Ryan O\u2019Hearn hit a grand slam. He did so with one out in the third inning scoring Brandon Lowe, Bryan Reynolds and Valdez. On July 7, O\u2019Hearn hit a grand slam as part of a historic 10-RBI night. It\u2019s the fourth of his career and it gives him the team RBI lead with 68.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/937thefan\/sports\/pittsburgh-pirates\/top-prospect-seth-hernandez-dealing-with-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seth Hernandez dealing with injury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jamo struggles<\/p>\n<p>One of the nicest people in the game, 2010 Pirates first-round pick Jameson Taillon had another bad start for the Cubs. In two starts in July he\u2019s given up 11 hits, four walks and 11 runs with nine strikeouts over 8.1 innings. His season ERA is now 5.92 and his WHIP is 1.36.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/937thefan\/sports\/pittsburgh-pirates\/horwitz-endy-coming-back-to-pittsburgh-for-evaluations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Endy Rodriguez &amp; Spencer Horwitz to be evaluated in Pittsburgh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n<p> Braxton Ashcraft didn\u2019t give up a home run for the first time in four starts going 6 innings, 7 hits, 4 runs, 2 walks, 5 strikeouts for his team-high 10th win of the seasonPirates held a 7-1 lead, Mason Montgomery got the save giving up a two-run homer in the ninth inning Struggling for much of July, Brandon Lowe had his first multi-hit game since July 18 and broke a 1 for 17 slump with three hits 21-year-old shortstop Jhonny Severino hit his 24th home run in High A Greensboro. At the time of the homer, he led the South Atlantic League in both home runs and RBIs (73) <\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>Arizona holds the final Wild Card spot and makes its only trip to PNC Park starting Monday. RHP Merrill Kelly (8-8, 5.12 ERA) against Pirates righty Mitch Keller (6-7, 4.90 ERA) coming off five scoreless innings at the Yankees. Dan Zangrilli hosts the North Shore Tavern Leadoff Show at 5:45 with first pitch at 6:40 on 93.7 The Fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 Pirates scored the most runs in a game since the All-Star Break Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,29828,14708,1423,73,75,74,10997,104971],"class_list":["post-252539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-ryan-o-hearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}