What a cheater!
16-2 .. come on
16-2 .. come on
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What GAme is he umpiring today
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That certainly is an eyebrow-raising stat, rake. But I'm not sure that it warrants suspicion that he's necessarily throwing the games for the home team.
Apr 11, Cin at Pit, Pirates win 1-0; rain delay in 6th is what forces Reds starter Edinson Volquez from the game.
Apr 15, Min at Det, 4 Tiger HR play a bigger part in Detroit's 6-5 win than any calls DiMuro makes
Apr 19, Was at Fla, errors abound in 6-5 Marlins win won on walk-off single in 9th AFTER Nats tied the game in top of the 9th (one might think that if he was on the home side in that one he'd have gone out of his way in the top of the 9th to prevent it from being tied)
Apr 24, Tor at Tam (at Disney). This one, maybe you can make a case for as Blue Jays starter Dustin McGowan walks a season-high 7 in 4 innings, Rays win 5-3.
Apr 30, Sea at Cle, Cliff Lee is having a hot start against a very sucky Mariners squad. Indians win 8-3.
May 4, Cubs @ StL, Nothing I can see in the boxscore about this one looks to favor DiMuro helping the Cards' 5-3 win. Of the 7 Cubs hitters to whiff, 5 go down swinging. If anything, it looks like St. Louis pitchers had to work deeper into counts than Cubs hurlers in this game judging by pitch counts.
May 9, Oak at Tex, Rangers win 3-0, their third consecutive shutout, and it's during an overall hot streak by Texas (marked 4th-straight win and 10th win in 14 games).
May 13, Fla at Cin, Volquez on the mound for the Reds again, 'nuff said about Cincy's 5-3 win.
May 18, Was at Bal, win for the visiting Nats, 2-1, very well-pitched game overall (either that or both offenses sucked that night).
May 23, Sea at NYY, Yanks cruise to 13-2 win over hapless Mariners and Eric Bedard. Maybe you look closer at DiMuro's calls in a 3-2 game, but not a 13-2 contest.
Jun 3, NYM at SFG, road team wins as Pedro amd Mets use an 8-run fifth en route to a 9-6 triumph.
Jun 8, Cle at Det, Granderson and Tigers take 5-2 win. Starting pitching matchup favors Detroit with Armando Galarraga on the mound against Cleveland's Jeremy Sowers.
Jun 12, Tex at KCR, late wild pitch by Rangers reliever Frank Francisco aids Royals rally in 6-5 win. Eric Hurley started for Texas against KC's Brian Bannister.
Jun 17, Was at Min, Twins starting to heat up in interleague play, top Nats 2-1 on a Justin Morneau 2-run bomb. Livan Hernandez tosses 7 strong for Minnesota as does John Lannan for Washington. Just 3 walks total in game, and none of them score.
Jun 21, ChiSox at Cubs, it's a home run fest, four by the Cubs and two by Edmonds in a 9-run Cubs fourth (Cubs hit 4 HR in that inning) as the North Side prevails 11-7.
Jun 25, Arz at Bos, Wakefield tosses a gem, 7 innings of 2-hit ball, Sox break open a 2-0 game with a 3-run 7th for a 5-0 win.
Jun 29, MYY at NYM, Oliver Perez shakes off a string of bad outings with a solid game, K's 8 in 7 innings and only allows a Wilson Betemit homer with the Yankees going with a lineup that does not include Giambi or Cano against the southpaw Perez.Comment -
Have a little too much time on your hands today?...Originally posted by Willie Bee
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He should be shot. What a shame. Rigging at it's finest form. He must not like the extra inning home teams get when they are down. Take it out of his salary. He doesn't deserve it for working less innings.Comment -
Rakey, How Do You Explain This. .i Hope You're Not Saying This Is A Trend. It's Total Luck. How Can A Homeplate Ump Have Any Control Over A Home Team Winning.
There's Bound To Be One Ump Out Of The 75 Or So Umps To Have A 16-2 Record.. It's The Law Of Averages.
Total Coincidence.Comment -
With all of the Tim Donaghy stuff, it's understandable for some stat like this to raise a flag. But to just look at that stat and proclaim that the record alone is evidence that DiMuro is intentionally throwing games to the home team is silly. You've got to look inside the games, and there's only that one in which McGowan had a higher-than-normal walk count that lends it self to being even slightly suspicious.
Oh, and this just in: Only three of the home teams have been underdogs in his games. If an inordinate amount of road dogs had been covering in Dimuro's plate assignments, then you might get a little suspicious.Comment -
i used to be an ump for many years and you can't control an outcome in a basebll game. if he misses 3 calls, then MLB will know he's missing em and will fire him.. it's too obvious..
2 things
if 80 umps flipped 18 coins, i am sure that one of them will go 16-2 with heads, and one of them will go 2-16.. and a bunch will go 9-7 and so on.
also, home teams this year have been cleaning up.. so this is not out of the ordinary. there's only 4 teams out of 30 teams with sub 500 record at home.. so this is no surprise here.Comment -
Well...obviously it's a "trend". It's 16-2.Originally posted by Nicky Santauro
By calling the borderline pitches, of which there are a ton of every game, strikes when the home team is playing defense and by calling the borderline pitches balls when the visiting team is on defense. You put the home team in favorable hitter counts and put the visiting team in unfavorable hitter counts.Originally posted by Nicky Santauro
The difference in expected outcomes from someone hitting with a 1-2 count and someone hitting in a 3-1 count are huge.
Probably. No pun intended. If I were an ump and I was going to throw games. I darn should wouldn't make it as obvious as the home team winning whenever I had the plate.Originally posted by Nicky Santauro
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you're nuts.. if you think it's that easy not to call the corners, you're wrong. if he does this alot, coaches will be pouring out of the dugouts to argue and he'll be ejecting everyone and mlb will see this and evaluate his games and see that he is missing corners a lot and fire him. not worth it for him to lose the greatest job in the world.
you can't control the outcome of a ballgame by doing this. NO WAY. and even if he gave 3 favorable calls, do you think this will make the home team win. this is the craziest thread i have ever read. so this guy is fixing games only for home teams.. wow..
this is hilarious man. but you seem to forget that home teams have won close to 62% of the games this year, so going 16-2 for one ump is not out of the question. i'm sure there are a lot of them that are 13-5 or better. are they in on it too.. wow.. i stilll can't believe i am in this thread. how idiotic.Comment -
Gotta agree w/Nicky & Crazyl here. Geez, the Orioles just lost their 12th straight Sunday game, didn't they ? No investigation or suspicion there. Like was said, one will go 16-2, one will go 2-16 and the rest will fall in the middle. That's just the way it is.Comment -
finally a reasonable guy.. yeah, i am an ump and i'm going to tell my buddies, don't worry, i will blow a bunch of calls for one team and no one will find out and do this for 18 straight games and still have a job so i can try to make an extra few g's. like missing 6 calls balls or strikes is going to decide the game?? a hockey ref, maybe he can pull it off by calling a bunch of penalties to have 5 on 3 power plays.. an NFL ref, maybe.. an NBA ref, call fouls.. but NOT a home plate ump. It is impossible..
hitman, not only is going 16-2 with 80+ umps not that hard, but don't forget too, it's not even a 50-50 shot, home teams are already close to 65% winning.. so 16-2 is nothing out of the ordinary.Comment -
FWIW, if 80 people each flipped 18 coins the probability of at least one of them flipping 16 or more heads or 16 or more tails would be 9.97%.Originally posted by Nicky Santauro
If we assume the coin biased and that heads come up about 54% of the time (the approximate home team win rate since 1999), then the probability jumps to 15.75%.Comment -
He'll be the homeplate umpire today at the Orioles gameComment