{"id":508172,"date":"2026-03-01T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508172\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:48:14","slug":"top-mlb-prospect-konnor-griffin-homers-again-for-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508172\/","title":{"rendered":"Top MLB prospect Konnor Griffin homers again for Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUPITER, Fla. &#8212; Konnor Griffin, the consensus No. 1 prospect in baseball, homered for the third time this spring in the first inning of the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b8fc9be-4020-52c6-aa28-9a0f2d4383e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>&#8216; 6-1 victory against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c781e7c6-2c5b-beaf-55b8-999c76f76661\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Griffin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47684202\/top-100-mlb-prospects-2026-kiley-mcdaniel-konnor-griffin-kevin-mcgonigle-jesus-made\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked as ESPN&#8217;s top prospect<\/a>, started at shortstop for the Pirates and hit a two-run shot off <a data-player-guid=\"bf5467a7-18bc-326b-ba54-23e1ea165a6e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5006093\/kyle-leahy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Leahy<\/a> to give Pittsburgh a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48032977\/mlb-2026-konnor-griffin-pittsburgh-pirates-no-1-prospect-opening-day-roster\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1619891_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griffin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48025899\/pirates-prospect-konnor-griffin-wows-home-runs-vs-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went deep twice<\/a> against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates drafted Griffin in the first round in 2024. He reached Double-A last year, where he hit .337 with a .960 OPS in 21 games for Altoona.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER, Fla. &#8212; Konnor Griffin, the consensus No. 1 prospect in baseball, homered for the third time this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-508172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}