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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: Konnor Griffin, star

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Sports, Football, Nhl, Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baseball, Pirates, Matt Williamson, Mlb, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers, Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh, Nfl, Hockey

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

So it turns out this Connor Griffin kid's pretty much just a one-trick pony.

0:12.7

Morning to you.

0:14.1

Good.

0:15.1

Monday morning.

0:16.0

I'm Dan Kvach, Beach, D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

0:18.6

Waiting to see if you actually stuck around this long after that opening.

0:23.3

If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins in the same place that you found this.

0:33.7

Pirates 6, Cardinals won, and yes, I said Cardinals, a team they like never see in great

0:41.3

fruitball because they're on the other side of Florida.

0:45.4

This game was in Jupiter coming the day after they faced the Astros in West Palm Beach.

0:52.3

So a weekend tour, those two teams will return the favor and play the

0:57.9

Pirates in Bradenton later in the spring. Hunter Barker with a solid three-inning start. No runs,

1:05.8

no hits. Three strikeouts, a couple walks. Jared Triolo and Josephson Garcia with a couple of hits each,

1:13.1

and yes, Griffin had another hit, but he only gets one kind of hit.

1:20.0

He blasted a 404-foot home run that registered 107 miles an hour off the bat,

1:27.6

which means that for the summation of his spring,

1:30.9

he's now got three hits in 14 at bats.

1:35.1

All three of them have cleared fences.

1:37.8

All three of them cleared those fences by a country mile.

1:42.2

How do I feel about this? I don't.

1:47.3

I honestly have seen enough of this kid to believe that it's wholly possible that hype isn't sufficient. Because the reality is,

1:58.4

over an actual period of time, Griffin is a complete hitter.

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