TOR @ MIL
Home plate: Chris Guccione
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball
Brice Turang vs Dylan Cease - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Nathan Lukes vs Chad Patrick - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Gary Sánchez vs Dylan Cease
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Joey Ortiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.