TB @ STL
Home plate: Chris Guccione
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
JJ Wetherholt vs Drew Rasmussen - 2-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Alec Burleson vs Drew Rasmussen - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike
Ben Williamson vs Matthew Liberatore
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.