PIT @ CHC
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Oneil Cruz vs Shota Imanaga - 2-0.23▲7 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nick Gonzales vs Caleb Thielbar - 3+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ryan O'Hearn vs Riley Martin
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Nick Gonzales — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.