1.   Jeter had two hits, including a home run.

2.   Jeter was having such trouble that when he led off the ninth inning for the Yankees, he bunted, and was thrown out by third baseman Matt Williams.

3.   Jeter did not have a great season, relative to the standards he has established.

4.   Jeter had a bone bruise that stiffened as the game progressed.

5.   Jeter had a two-out, run-scoring single off Troy Percival in the ninth, but Bernie Williams struck out to end the game.

6.   Jeter has yet to win the fan balloting.

7.   Jeter had a powerful arm even as a teen-ager.

8.   Jeter had a single in the ninth inning on Monday, breaking a string of six hitless at-bats.

9.   Jeter has no runs batted in in his last eight games.

10.   Jeter has one more year of relative servitude, and then it will be his turn.