ATL @ SEA
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Mitch Garver vs JR Ritchie - 2+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Matt Olson vs Logan Gilbert - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-0 strike called ball
Matt Olson vs Logan Gilbert
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Leo Rivas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.