KC @ ATH
Home plate: Sean Barber
“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 173 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▼10 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Lawrence Butler vs Lucas Erceg - 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Nick Kurtz vs Kris Bubic - 3+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Darell Hernaiz vs Matt Strahm
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jeff McNeil — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Nick Kurtz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.