{"id":257779,"date":"2026-08-02T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:09:08","slug":"with-ohearn-out-pirates-get-horwitz-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257779\/","title":{"rendered":"With O\u2019Hearn out, Pirates get Horwitz back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 Just when the Pirates lost its starting first baseman Ryan O\u2019Hearn, potentially for the rest of the season, they get a MLB first baseman back.<\/p>\n<p>Out since June 24 due to a hamstring injury, and then suffering a concussion after being hit by a pitch during a rehab assignment in A Bradenton, Spencer Horwitz was activated and in the starting lineup batting fifth for the series finale in Cincinnati Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old, left-handed hitter was the Pirates most consistent hitter through the first 74 games. He was hitting .280 with a .386 on-base percentage and .842 OPS with 11 doubles, and 10 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates sent outfielder Billy Cook to AAA to make room on the roster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 Just when the Pirates lost its starting first baseman Ryan O\u2019Hearn, potentially for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,1423,73,75,74,10997,41208,37449],"class_list":["post-257779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-ryan-ohearn","tag-spencer-horwitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257779","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=257779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}