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All 15 home teams won their games on August 11, 2015, a first in modern Major League Baseball history. The odds of this happening are 1 in 32,768 and it is likely to happen once every 80 years. Home teams have gone 11-0 on six occasions, with the most recent being on September 16, 1989. A 2010 study found that athletes who compete at home tend to win just over 60 percent of the time.
The 2015 season marked the first time in modern Major League Baseball history that all 15 home teams won their games on a day when all 30 MLB teams were scheduled to play. On August 11, 2015, the winning teams, all playing at home, were the Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres , the San Francisco Giants, the New York Mets. , Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Miami Marlins, Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Dodgers. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, something similar happened on May 23, 1914, when the home teams finished 12-0. Louis Mittel, a graduate student in statistics at Columbia University, calculated the odds of a home team win in a night with a full slate of games to be 1 in 32,768. Mittel calculated that this is likely to happen about once every 80 years.
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The home teams have gone 11-0 on six occasions, including three times in the 1800s. The most recent occurrence was on September 16, 1989.
The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Rays joined Major League Baseball in 1998 as expansion teams, bringing the league total to 30 teams.
In a 2010 study, a social psychologist at the University of Rochester looked at team sports as well as individual competitions such as golf, tennis and boxing and found that athletes who compete at home tend to win just over 60 percent of the time. .
