CWS @ SD
Home plate: Sean Barber
“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Gavin Sheets vs Grant Taylor - 2-0.28▼4 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Gavin Sheets vs Sean Burke - 3-0.19▼1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jackson Merrill vs Sean Burke
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Gavin Sheets — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.