AZ @ MIL
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Garrett Mitchell vs Merrill Kelly - 2+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Sal Frelick vs Merrill Kelly - 3+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Garrett Mitchell vs Andrew Hoffmann
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.