CLE @ KC
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Tanner Bibee - 2+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Maikel Garcia vs Tanner Bibee - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
David Fry vs Michael Wacha
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.
- 1Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Daniel Schneemann — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.