{"id":126912,"date":"2026-03-01T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126912\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:29:08","slug":"top-prospect-konnor-griffin-homers-again-for-the-pittsburgh-pirates-against-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126912\/","title":{"rendered":"Top prospect Konnor Griffin homers again for the Pittsburgh Pirates against St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUPITER, Fla. \u2014 Top prospect Konnor Griffin homered for the third time this spring in the first inning of the Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; matchup with the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Griffin, ranked as MLB Pipeline&#8217;s No. 1 prospect, started at shortstop for the Pirates and hit a two-run shot off Kyle Leahy to give Pittsburgh a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin went deep twice against the Boston Red Sox 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER, Fla. \u2014 Top prospect Konnor Griffin homered for the third time this spring in the first inning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11460,1423,73,75,74,10997,45323,5342],"class_list":["post-126912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}