{"id":661129,"date":"2026-04-03T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:53:14","slug":"pirates-starting-lineup-vs-orioles-where-is-konnor-griffin-batting-in-mlb-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661129\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Starting Lineup Vs. Orioles: Where Is Konnor Griffin Batting In MLB Debut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> not only have their 2026 regular season home-opener on Friday but <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/pirates-officially-promote-konnor-griffin-mlb-announce-corresponding-move\/d6012558508dafcd37675970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially promoted<\/a> top prospect Konnor Griffin just hours ahead of the game vs. the Baltimore Orioles as well.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin is starting at shortstop in the contest and will be batting seventh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;7\/162,&#8221; the Pirates&#8217; official account posted on Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">7\/162. \ud83d\udcfa: SportsNet Pittsburgh \ud83d\udcfb: @937theFan<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:xtjr2ecuxb6wqjr3jfbwdu3m\/post\/3mim3aiaoes2v?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:xtjr2ecuxb6wqjr3jfbwdu3m?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@pirates.com<\/a>) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:xtjr2ecuxb6wqjr3jfbwdu3m\/post\/3mim3aiaoes2v?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griffin&#8217;s debut is by far the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/konnor-griffin-pirates-debuts-list-history\/9fd5e9ea48118583f7e0ebd5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most anticipated<\/a> of the young season and the hype surrounding the 19-year-old is unmatched in recent MLB history.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 first-round pick has passed every test in the minor leagues since being drafted and was off to a fast start with Triple-A Indianapolis before Friday&#8217;s promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin went\u00a07-for-16 with three doubles, four runs scored and three stolen bases across five games with the Indians this season.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/what-time-does-pirates-game-start-today-orioles-pregame-lineup-april-3-2026\/9e3bd104360ef747f66a9888\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Time Does The Pirates Game Start Today? Orioles vs. Pirates Start Time, Pregame Show and Lineup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates not only have their 2026 regular season home-opener on Friday but officially promoted top prospect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-661129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pirates","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341820952577218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}