MIL @ MIA
Home plate: Sean Barber
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Gary Sánchez vs Sandy Alcantara - 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Javier Sanoja vs Brandon Woodruff - 3-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Sal Frelick vs Anthony Bender
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Jake Bauers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.