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A very good professional softball player gets a hit about $35\%$ of the time over an entire season. After the player failed to hit safely in six straight at$-$bats, a TV commentator said, "She is due for a hit by the law of averages." Explain why the commentator is wrong.

The commentator is misapplying the law of large numbers to a small number of repetitions.

Failing to hit six times in a row suggests she is in a slump and that she is likely to fail to get a hit the next time at bat.

According to the law of averages, she should have gotten at least two hits in her first six at$-$bats, so the law of averages does not apply.

It is impossible to predict future outcomes from mathematical probability.