DET @ BOS
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ceddanne Rafaela vs Kyle Finnegan - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Hao-Yu Lee vs Ranger Suarez - 3+0.13▲10 · 1-0 strike called ball
Spencer Torkelson vs Garrett Whitlock
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.