The Pittsburgh Pirates placed right fielder/first baseman Ryan O’Hearn on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a right quad strain.
Outfielder Jake Mangum was reinstated from the 10-day injured list to replace O’Hearn on the 26-man roster.
O’Hearn exited Pittsburgh’s 6-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday due to the injury. He said he sustained the injury while coming in to field a pop fly in the second inning.
“I felt like the very top of my quad/hip flexor grab on me, big time, and I immediately knew that felt weird,” O’Hearn told reporters. “I went inside the dugout, came out to hit, and tried to jog after the pop fly. I felt it, tried to go back out for the inning, but every time I tried to do more than a walk or slow jog, my leg was grabbing on me.”
O’Hearn, 32, is batting .289 with seven home runs and 29 RBIs in 44 games during his first season in Pittsburgh.
Mangum, 30, was placed on the injured list with a left hamstring strain on May 8, retroactive to May 6. He is batting .260 with three RBIs in 30 games this season.
