TOR @ TB
Home plate: David Rackley
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how David Rackley called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 109 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
Jonny DeLuca vs Spencer Miles - 2+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Kazuma Okamoto vs Nick Martinez - 3+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ryan Vilade vs Eric Lauer
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jesús Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.