O'Hearn sets Pirates record with 10 RBIs during 3-HR night

You can't stop Ryan O'Hearn. You can only hope to contain him.

O'Hearn put together perhaps the greatest offensive performance in the Pittsburgh Pirates' storied history Tuesday, mashing three home runs and a team-record 10 RBIs in a 12-4 win over the Atlanta Braves.

The milestone third homer came off Braves reliever Connor Thomas in the sixth inning.

The third homer was the 100th round-tripper of O'Hearn's career. It was also his 16th of the season, establishing a new career high.

O'Hearn had a chance at both a fourth homer and RBIs Nos. 11 and 12 - both of which would have tied MLB single-game records - in the eighth inning, but Braves position player Jorge Mateo held him to a single.

"Pretty amazing. I've never hit three in a game before at any level," O'Hearn told SportsNet Pittsburgh's Hannah Mears postgame.

It's just the 18th 10-RBI game in MLB history and the first since Shohei Ohtani's iconic performance in 2024. O'Hearn drove in all but two of the Pirates' 12 runs and was responsible for the first 10.

Only seven Pirates, including O'Hearn, have ever recorded eight-plus RBIs in a single game. The previous franchise record was nine, set by Johnny Rizzo in the second game of a doubleheader on May 30, 1939, in St. Louis, per Stathead.

It was clear that something special was happening right from his first at-bat, when O'Hearn clubbed a grand slam off Braves starter Hurston Waldrep.

He got Waldrep again with a three-run shot in the third inning that blew the game wide open.

This was just the fourth multi-homer game of the 32-year-old's nine-year career. Incredibly, two of those have come within the last two weeks, as he had a two-homer night against the Cincinnati Reds on June 28.

O'Hearn, who joined the Pirates on a two-year, $29-million contract this past winter, is now hitting a career-best .293/.351/.500 with 16 homers and 61 RBIs across 319 plate appearances this year.