May 6: The Reds placed Callihan on the 10-day IL today and optioned right-hander Yosver Zulueta. They recalled outfielder Jacob Hurtubise and righty Lyon Richardson in corresponding moves. Manager Terry Francona tells Mark Sheldon of MLB.com that Callihan underwent successful surgery on his arm. He won’t be able to do baseball activities for six to eight weeks. After that, he will presumably need a ramp-up period and rehab assignment, so he’ll probably be on the IL into July.
May 5: The Reds announced that rookie infielder/outfielder Tyler Callihan suffered a left forearm fracture in tonight’s game against Atlanta. He’s obviously in for a long-term absence.
Callihan suffered the gruesome injury while he was playing left field. He tracked a Matt Olson fly ball that sliced down the line. Callihan, a right-handed thrower, reached up for the ball with his glove hand. He went into a slide and was unable to avoid crashing into the wall with limited foul territory. His outstretched left arm took the brunt of the collision. It was immediately apparent that he’d suffered a significant injury. (Olson came around to score on an inside-the-park home run after Callihan understandably dropped the ball in pain.)
The 24-year-old Callihan just received his first major league call last week. He came up to serve as a left-handed hitting bench bat when Jeimer Candelario went on the injured list. He recorded his first MLB hit and RBI with a base knock against Washington’s Trevor Williams on Saturday. He’s 1-6 with a strikeout in four games.
Callihan will at least collect major league pay and service time during what figures to be a long injured list stint. He’ll go on the major league IL and should end up on the 60-day injured list once the Reds need to open a 40-man roster spot. Gavin Lux, who started at designated hitter tonight, will continue getting the majority of playing time in left field. Blake Dunn came off the bench to handle the position this evening.
Looked bad immediately. Hope he recovers fast and comes back stronger….How in the world was that not a catch?
It was a catch.
Apparently he involuntarily dropped the ball. That was the explanation on the Braves broadcast.
Yeah i saw that and it still didn’t make sense….He caught the ball and threw his glove off in agony, looked pretty voluntary if you ask me. Hopefully he heals quick.
Agreed. They blew the call.
The ball came out a couple seconds before he threw his glove off. It is absolutely not a catch. We could argue that it should be but look at the replay closer. The rule says you must voluntarily remove the ball from your glove which clearly wasn’t the case. Even if he did flip it out on purpose you could never prove that he did. Some of the confusion is that they only showed the replay one time on the Braves broadcast.
You have got to get the ball back to the infield. Bad coaching on the Reds part.
What? Bad commenting on your part, and you’re not hurt.
I hope Manfred doesn’t read your comment, that’s all we need.. It was most definitely a catch.
What a take…
What are you talking about you have to get the ball back to the IF?? Under that assumption one could not tag up til the ball was back in the IF and a catch becomes official, which obviously is not the case.
Or a third out where the OF turns and lobs the ball to a fan.
never had a broken arm huh
As a Braves fan, that was a catch to me. Not sure why the review did not rule it as such.
By rule (which I’m not a fan of) it wasn’t a catch. I hope that young man has a full and fast recovery. Kid plays hard, nothing but respect for him
It surprises me no one has brought up that jazz chisolm junior got a little league home run the same way when Acuna hurt his knee the first time. I really don’t remember anyone complaining about that. I mean it is unfortunate but by the rules that is 💯 not a catch. No one instructed him to run into that wall at full speed…I hope him a full and speedy recovery!
Looked nasty. Even worse on slo-mo replay.
Wonderful play by the kid. No idea why they didn’t call that a catch. He kept it hitting the wall, hitting the ground and when he realized he was hurt it finally came out.
Unfortunately, that’s the rule. The ball came out and he wasn’t “in the process of transfer”. It just fell off his glove.
They should adjust the rule for this specific situation where the ball is dropped due to injury after clearly making a catch
Umpires had the right to call it a successful catch, and should have given the circumstances. Given the rules, replay did not have grounds to overturn the umpires’ on-field call, but it was a poor ruling by the field crew of umpires.
Know his career history makes this even more sad. He’s always had really good talent and stats but has just constantly suffered some sort of injury. I’ll say this though he show nothing short of amazing resilience. Definitely rooting for him to shake back better
Shown*
@cr4 Good thong you corrected that, nobody would ve known what he was saying…..
My brother he was correcting his own comment… chill.
Terrible. Hope he has a speedy recovery.
Feel bad for the kid, knowing his history and just getting called up the first time. That was a hell of a play however you want to slice it.
Hope he’ll be back better than ever.
C’mon that was a CATCH!!!!! what is wrong with replay he solidly had the ball after the wall he still had until he was flat on ground….with a broken arm.
Its really tough finally got in the show and this..
Saw the video. Gnarly injury
Gruesome injury… reminded me of when Lawrence Taylor snapped Joe Theismann’s leg. (Yes, I’m that old.) Wish him a speedy recovery!
I remember the Joe Theismann pencil sharpener bit on Letterman.
MNF I remember it too well!
Yep, me too.
The reds broadcast team will get fined they mentioned that mlb sometimes bends the rules but not against the struggling braves big tv market
What are you, 12 years old? Such a weak comment.
Bending the rules against the Braves? ‘Till this date Alec Bohm hasn’t touched home plate.
If you actually watch Braves games you will find most times NY does not side with ATL. Conspiracy theories of baseball are strong though. NY getting fed juiced balls and not having to test for juice is also always a good stand by if you can’t come up with other conspiracies.
At least he got his first MLB hit. Hope he comes back.
Was an amazing play… felt terrible watching him crash and drop it. Heard the bang then hes just on the ground, Ball laying next to him. Never wanna see that. Hopefully it fully heals and he’s back to 100%
Forearm is better than wrist. Long bones have a better chance of fully healing than all those little bones in the wrist. I hope his recovery is swift and complete.
It was a catch.
Good try, good effort.
Reds bringing up a 198 aaa hitter instead of hines 7 hr 31 rbi its hutibees wgat a joke
Hopefully that just means Hays will be back soon.
That sucks I can’t imagine how bad that hurt. I hope he can recover.
Olsen with no class making it an inside the parker. Somewhat similar play to what happened with Robles when the m’s were playing the Giants, Robles lost the ball on the transfer, but the Giants had the class to stop running the bases out of respect. You take advantage of an injury like that to score runs you have no class.
Robles did grab the ball and toss it towards the infield, albeit with the oomph of a 6-year-old child. I’d have to check the gamecast, but pretty sure the Giants took what they could get. It’s business
Yeah, Robles got the ball back in and Henry Blanco had already popped up at 3B to look back at what was happening.
It would’ve been wildly classy to stop, but it’s such a rare situation I’d bet 99% of major leaguers would default to run now, figure out what’s happening later.
The “Olsen with no class” remark is the silliest comment I’ve seen here in a long time.
“Play to the whistle” is ingrained in athletes from the time they can walk. Olsen did his job. Class has nothing to do with it.
Remember when jazz chisolm pimped his ITP when Acuna was laying on the ground screaming…..