KC @ DET
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Wenceel Pérez vs Cole Ragans - 2+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Spencer Torkelson vs Cole Ragans - 3+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Lane Thomas vs Framber Valdez
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.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Wenceel Pérez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.