BOS @ MIN
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Trevor Larnach vs Sonny Gray - 2+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Byron Buxton vs Aroldis Chapman - 3+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Caleb Durbin vs Mick Abel
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Andruw Monasterio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.