CHC @ CLE
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 200 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 182 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▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dylan Carlson vs Erik Sabrowski - 2-0.30▼8 · 3-1 ball called strike
Chase DeLauter vs Jacob Webb - 3+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
José Ramírez vs Shota Imanaga
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Nico Hoerner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.