NYY @ TB
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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· challenged ✓
Aaron Judge vs Steven Matz - 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Giancarlo Stanton vs Steven Matz - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Junior Caminero vs Luis Gil
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Nick Fortes — 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.