DET @ ATL
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Kevin McGonigle vs Bryce Elder - 2+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Matt Vierling vs Bryce Elder - 3+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Austin Riley vs Framber Valdez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Gleyber Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.