TB @ MIN
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
James Outman vs Yoendrys Gómez - 2+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Kody Clemens vs Hunter Bigge - 3-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Jonathan Aranda vs Bailey Ober
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 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 ball: upheld.
- 2Cedric Mullins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Trevor Larnach — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.