CLE @ SEA
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“You could set a watch by that zone.”
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 193 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
CJ Kayfus vs Eduard Bazardo - 2+0.19▲6 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
José Ramírez vs Bryan Woo - 3+0.19▼8 · 2-0 strike called ball
Luke Raley vs Shawn Armstrong
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Angel Martínez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Brayan Rocchio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.