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In last night's 7-5 victory (box score) against the Oakland A's, Yankees Captain Derek Jeter broke his 0-32 slump with a home run and the Yankees won their 3rd straight game. Jeter hit the lead-off homer on the first pitch fast-ball he saw from A's starter Barry Zito. The hitless streak that Jeter endured was the longest for the Yankees since Jimmy Wynn went 0 for 32 in 1977. In a "deja vu all over again" moment Yogi Berra had his own 0-32 stretch which he also broke with a home run. After the game, Jeter said, "It's like a bad dream is over with." The Times has a nice graphic on how he did during the slump versus his career numbers; The Kristen Buckley Show suspects that there was voodoo involved with his slump.
It's a no brainer, but Gothamist thinks that with the slump over, Derek Jeter will return to his normal ways. His average will steadily climb the rest of the season from .161 towards his career mark of .315. Fantasy players, if you can trade for Jeter, do it now.
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Jeter may have broken his hitless streak, but going 1 for 4 isn't exactly breaking a slump. He needs a couple of 3 for 4 games before the slump is over.
Probabilistically speaking, the concept of slumps and hot streaks is nonsense. Assuming no outside influences like illness or excess partying, a .315 hitter will occasionally go 0 for whatever. Not as often as a .200 hitter, but more frequently than someone batting .350.
"Probabilistically"
dude. stop makin shit up.
I was at the game last night, and it was amazingly cool when Jeter hit that home run for the Yankees' first at bat, but he then proceeded to not hit another ball for the rest of the game.
Yankees will suck as will Jeter. Here's a question. Say the 2 world series teams are about to play game 7 when 1 member of the team is killed in an accident. Does MLB make them play? And if the deceased player was the best player on either team, is it fair to have the two teams play?
Actually, I'm pretty sure the pitch was a curve. Zito was hanging more than his fair share last night, and the one to Cairo was an especially blatant meatball. You know it's a pretty lousy pitch when a scrub like Cairo jacks it 400 feet.
i didn't see it keith, but here is the description from the daily news:
"One American League scout seated behind the backstop broke down Jeter's first at-bat against ace lefty Barry Zito last night - a first-inning homer on a first-pitch fastball."
what does it matter anyhoo: the Mets are going to take it all this year