LAD @ SF
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 130 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kyle Tucker vs Tyler Mahle - 2+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drew Gilbert vs Shohei Ohtani - 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Will Smith vs Tyler Mahle
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jung Hoo Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.