{"id":236745,"date":"2026-04-04T00:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/pirates-konnor-griffin-makes-immediate-impact-in-mlb-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:58:49","slug":"pirates-konnor-griffin-makes-immediate-impact-in-mlb-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/pirates-konnor-griffin-makes-immediate-impact-in-mlb-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Konnor Griffin makes immediate impact in MLB debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/pittsburgh_pirates\/22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> got a glimpse of their future on Friday afternoon, and they had to like what they saw. Not only for their future, but also for their present.<\/p>\n<p>Konnor Griffin, their 19-year-old shortstop and the consensus No. 1 prospect in all of baseball, made his Major League Debut in a 5-4 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/baltimore_orioles\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> and made an immediate impact.<\/p>\n<h2>Konnor Griffin is the Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; biggest X factor this season<\/h2>\n<p>Griffin began his MLB career by ripping an RBI double into the left-center field gap, giving the Pirates a 1-0 lead in his first career at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>He would later score on Jared Triolo&#8217;s RBI single to right field.<\/p>\n<p>All of that helped kickstart a four-run second inning that proved to be the difference in the game.<\/p>\n<p>He finished his debut going 1-for-3 with a double, an RBI, a run scored and a walk. He also looked right at home at shortstop, making a couple of tough plays and helping to turn a double play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/pirates_konnor_griffin_makes_immediate_impact_in_mlb_debut\/s1_13132_43684554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates got a glimpse of their future on Friday afternoon, and they had to like what they saw. Not only for their future, but also for their present. Konnor Griffin, their 19-year-old shortstop and the consensus No. 1 prospect in all of baseball, made his Major League Debut in a 5-4 win against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}