LAD @ HOU
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Isaac Paredes vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Max Muncy vs Bryan Abreu - 3+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Cam Smith vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Isaac Paredes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.