This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

What a fantastic night of football.

Including 10 Premier League games.

It doesn't get much better than that.

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

It's on Prime.

If you're not aware of the statistic known as batting average on balls in play,

I'm about to give you a pretty good lesson on this, citing one specific player.

Good morning to you.

Good.

Wednesday morning, I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're in to football and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins in the same place that you found this.

Pirates 5, Cub 0, a second consecutive evening of seamless baseball at Wrigley

Field, even though the two Wunderkind pitchers on the staff didn't exactly coast. First, Jared

Jones a couple nights ago, then Paul Skeen's last night

had to battle his rear end off to put up five zeros, but he did put up five zeros, thanks in

large part to a dynamite change-up that I don't know that even he knew he had to that extent.

And Jared Triolo, of all people, came up with the big hit three-run homer, a liner into the basket beyond left field.

But if we're keeping this real here, he'd have to hit like, I don't know, 10 more of those this month to try to begin to undo

the damage that he's done to his stat line from one year to the next. I mean, listen to some

of this. It's pretty crazy. 23, his batting average, and this was in 54 games, was 298.

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