SF @ TB
Home plate: John Bacon
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how John Bacon called the 112 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 103 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▼1 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Junior Caminero vs Robbie Ray - 2-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Junior Caminero vs Robbie Ray - 3+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jonathan Aranda 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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Chandler Simpson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Willy Adames — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Willy Adames — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.