TB @ MIL
Home plate: CB Bucknor
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What this shows — how CB Bucknor called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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
- 1-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
Ben Williamson vs DL Hall - 2-0.13▼5 · 1-0 ball called strike
Joey Ortiz vs Drew Rasmussen - 3+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jake Bauers vs Drew Rasmussen
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 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.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.