MIA @ SF
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Xavier Edwards vs Erik Miller - 2+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Kyle Stowers vs Erik Miller - 3+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Javier Sanoja vs Robbie Ray
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Drew Gilbert — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.