LAD @ TOR
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Alex Freeland vs Tyler Rogers - 2+0.21▼7 · 3-0 strike called ball
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Blake Treinen - 3-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
Miguel Rojas vs Mason Fluharty
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Davis Schneider — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.