“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Colson Montgomery vs Joey Lucchesi - 2+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jorge Soler vs Davis Martin - 3+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Munetaka Murakami vs Joey Lucchesi
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Oswald Peraza — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.