Kate Hudson vs. Madonna: Who Is Better for A-Rod's Average?

By PopEater Staff Posted Jun 10th 2009 03:59PM

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On Monday, we were at Yankee Stadium watching the Yanks win over the the Tampa Bay Rays despite a horrendous night from Alex Rodriguez. He went 0-3, with one walk. He also grounded into a double play and made a crucial error which led to a Tampa run.

Granted, A-Rod is still working back into form after off-season hip surgery, and he's still dealing with the repercussions of his steroid use admission. But we wondered if he's also pressured to perform for his rumored new squeeze, Kate Hudson. This is why man invented stats.

Trying to track down an official start date for the Hudson A-Rod fling is difficult, so we decided to go with a Page Six item linking the two on May 19th. From there, we crunched numbers with help from Elias Sports Bureau stats on ESPN, looking at his hits, RBIs and home runs.

We looked at the twenty games since that "dinner date" and here's how it breaks down:

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For a game-by-game analysis of A-Rod through the Hudson era, look here:

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Now, what does it say about Hudson's overall power when root-root-rooting for the Yankees? Well, we had to then compare this stretch to a twenty game span from last summer when Madonna and A-Rod were linked together.

We took a look at the 10 games prior to and following Cynthia Rodriguez filing for divorce from A-Rod, citing their union was "irretrievably broken because of the husband?s extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct." Madonna told PEOPLE at the time "I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez. I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage" and she was not named in the petition, but her "friendship" with A-Rod was said to be a factor.

So, from June 27 to through July 20 of 2008, here's the impact of Madge on the slugger.

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Game-by-game breakdown during that time? We've got you covered:

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OK, pretty much a wash, right? We'll go extra innings for the tiebreaker. Madonna attended a Yankees game on June 22, 2008 when the Yankees played the Reds. A-Rod had no hits and one strikeout. Kate Hudson was in the stands on June 6 when the Yanks and the Rays clashed. A-Rod had a home run. Best girl to have cheering you on: KATE HUDSON

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