{"id":635138,"date":"2026-04-28T00:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635138\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:36:18","slug":"paul-skenes-rents-a-bounce-house-for-pirates-clubhouse-to-celebrate-konnor-griffins-20th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635138\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes rents a bounce house for Pirates&#8217; clubhouse to celebrate Konnor Griffin&#8217;s 20th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 A bounce house stood in the middle of the Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 clubhouse before Monday night\u2019s game against St. Louis, courtesy of NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes rented the inflatable kids&#8217; attraction as a part of a belated celebration for rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin, who turned 20 on Friday and celebrated by hitting his first major league home run in a win at Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, I didn\u2019t get to get in it, but I love it,\u201d Pirates manager Don Kelly said of the bounce house. \u201cTeammates, it\u2019s good camaraderie and I know that Konnor\u2019s a great sport about it. There are not too many guys that get to celebrate their 20th birthday in the big leagues. Really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin made his debut on April 3 after being called up from Triple-A Indianapolis. He signed a $140 million, nine-year contract five days later.<\/p>\n<p>The Minor League Player of the Year last season, Griffin is hitting .224 with one homer and six stolen bases in 22 games. He was the Pirates\u2019 first-round pick in the 2024 amateur draft.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 A bounce house stood in the middle of the Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 clubhouse before Monday night\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[141525,5930,125041,141524,3979,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-635138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ap-online-sports-headlines","tag-ap-top-news","tag-ap-top-news-l-twc-regions","tag-ap-top-news-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}