AZ @ BAL
Home plate: Brennan Miller
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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
- 1-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged
Blaze Alexander vs Andrew Hoffmann - 2+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Samuel Basallo vs Ryne Nelson - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Ward vs Jonathan Loáisiga
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Adrian Del Castillo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Adrian Del Castillo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Jorge Barrosa — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.