ABSTRACT
Some of the most interesting phenomena in baseball are streaky or hot/cold performances by hitters and pitchers. A hitting streak is commonly defined as the number of consecutive games in which a player gets at least one base hit. An alternative way of looking at streaky hitting performances uses batting averages computed over short time intervals. Many people think that particular hitting accomplishment is one of the few baseball records that will not be broken in our lifetime. Ichiro Suzuki is one of the most exciting hitters in baseball, especially for his ability to hit singles, many of the infield variety. To illustrate this grouping operation, the game-to-game hitting data for Suzuki is collected in the data frame suzuki. The streakiness patterns in Suzuki's play-by-play hitting data are explored for the 2011 season. The streakiest hitter during the 2011 season using this standard deviation measure was Justin Upton.
