In the outrageously unlikely event that someone at Saturday Night Live

would want to put together a skit of your favorite baseball club entering the 2026 season.

You look like box store resulted from that game last night in Cincinnati.

Good morning to you.

Good.

Tuesday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Pirates presented by our good friends at the North Shore Tavern.

Almost steak on a stone.

Program comes your way bright and early every weekday.

If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins that I hope you'll also check out. Reds, too, Pirates, nothing. And that's

just not what you want. See, I'm still in New York. I covered the Penguins game here last night

against the Islanders.

Just about 10 minutes down the road from where the Mets play, the Islanders arena is.

And I'm not going to lie.

When I'm covering one sport.

I do keep a side eye on the other.

So up there in the press box, the game that I was covering was out of this world.

The Penguins winning 8 to 3, a huge consequence kind of event.

And I had the Pirates live file from our D.K. Pittsburgh Sports app sitting there next to my laptop and just

it wouldn't move. I kept shaking it, nudging it. The Red scored twice in the fourth inning

off Braxton Ashcraft, and that's it. It stayed 2-0 all night long at

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