ATH @ NYY
Home plate: Carlos Torres
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Ben Rice vs Luis Severino - 2+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Nick Kurtz vs Tim Hill - 3+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Elvis Alvarado
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.