AZ @ NYM
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Tyrone Taylor vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jose Fernandez vs Nolan McLean - 3-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jorge Barrosa vs Nolan McLean
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jorge Barrosa — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Robert Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ketel Marte — 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.