{"id":610290,"date":"2026-04-28T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:56:08","slug":"pirates-skenes-rents-bounce-house-to-celebrate-griffins-20th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610290\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Skenes rents bounce house to celebrate Griffin&#8217;s 20th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 A bounce house stood in the middle of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"pittsburgh-pirates\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>\u2019 clubhouse before Monday night\u2019s game against St. Louis, courtesy of NL Cy Young Award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/paul-skenes\/96de3b8e-efd5-4cdd-a6b8-617e47069c5a\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"96de3b8e-efd5-4cdd-a6b8-617e47069c5a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paul Skenes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes rented the inflatable kids&#8217; attraction as a part of a belated celebration for rookie shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/konnor-griffin\/8fc74924-4309-4db4-b69a-91a6e609de6b\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"8fc74924-4309-4db4-b69a-91a6e609de6b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Konnor Griffin<\/a>, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A bounce house stood in the middle of the Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 clubhouse before Monday night\u2019s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-610290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}