ATH @ TOR
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Kurtz vs Mason Fluharty - 2-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Daulton Varsho vs Luis Morales - 3-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nick Kurtz vs Eric Lauer
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 Kurtz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Darell Hernaiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.