TOR @ AZ
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brandon Valenzuela vs Andrew Hoffmann - 2+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jesús Sánchez vs Brandon Pfaadt - 3+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Ryne Nelson
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Myles Straw — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.