BAL @ MIA
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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
- 1-0.69▼3 · 3-2 ball called strike
Owen Caissie vs Chris Bassitt - 2+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Taylor Ward vs Sandy Alcantara - 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Kyle Stowers vs Chris Bassitt
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gunnar Henderson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.