PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – The Pirates have placed Ryan O’Hearn on the 10 day injured list Saturday due to a left quad strain.<\/p>\n
He was injured Friday night on a ground out while running to first base in the top of the 9th inning in the Pirates 8-7 loss to the Reds. <\/p>\n
“Just running down the line and randomly felt it pop. I’m pretty frustrated,” said O’Hearn to reporters on Saturday. <\/p>\n
O’Hearn is expected to be out 6-8 weeks. That timeline is roughly the beginning or middle of September if he has no setbacks in his recovery. He previously suffered a right quad injury on May 16th and remained on the IL through May 31st.<\/p>\n
“The Pirates will be alright, we got good players. Hopefully I can make a return and help out down the stretch,” said O’Hearn. <\/p>\n
He is second on the team in home runs and RBI’s, fourth in doubles and hits. This is a big blow to the Pirates offense. <\/p>\n
O’Hearn said to reporters he doesn’t need surgery and is thankful he has a chance to return before the playoffs. <\/p>\n
“Overall I’m beyond blessed. I got a great life, great family, I lean on my faith and attack the rehab process. The Pirates will be alright. They were fine the first time I missed time, we have some good players coming back. I’m just gonna help out around here as much as I can. Try and get better, try and get healthy and make a return when it really counts at the end.”<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh optioned right-handed pitcher Antwone Kelly to Triple-A Indianapolis. As the corresponding moves, they recalled right-handed pitcher Isaac Mattson from Triple-A and activated Rafael Flores Jr. from the IL.<\/p>\n
With the trade deadline looming, Ben Cherington will have a decision to make. He already has had to address the bullpen, now he has to consider going after a left-handed bat with the team still being just 2.5 games out of the final Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n
The trade deadline is Monday August 3rd at 6:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – The Pirates have placed Ryan O’Hearn on the 10 day injured list Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,10997,41208],"class_list":["post-257330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-ryan-ohearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257330","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=257330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}