COL @ TOR
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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
- 1-0.69▲4 · 3-2 ball called strike
Edouard Julien vs Spencer Miles - 2-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
Brett Sullivan vs Tyler Heineman - 3+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball
Hunter Goodman vs Brendon Little
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jesús Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.