Welcome to The Daily Yam, bringing you Yesterday’s Awesome Moment, anything else you might have missed, and what to look forward to today. It’s your one-stop shop when you skipped last night’s action, or have forgotten what day it is. Yesterday, Garrett Jones became only the second player in PNC Park history to drive a ball right into the Allegheny River on the fly.

Wait, is Mr. Met at the MLB winter meetings? Is Amy K. Nelson terribly afraid of mascots, for whatever reason? The compelling DRAMA, after the jump.

Well, it took him 42 major league at-bats, but pitching phenomenon Stephen Strasburg finally went yard. The Nationals wondered whether their investment in this kid would ever pay off, and, at last, it has. Video after the jump.

A reasonable amount of homerism is fully acceptable. But the way hockey announcer Mike Hickey griped during a Springfield Junior Blues game crossed the line.