SD @ PIT
Home plate: Tripp Gibson
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
Jake Cronenworth vs Bubba Chandler - 2-0.19▼6 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Marcell Ozuna vs Ron Marinaccio - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Gavin Sheets vs Yohan Ramírez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Marcell Ozuna — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Marcell Ozuna — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jake Cronenworth — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Spencer Horwitz — 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.