CLE @ KC
Home plate: John Bacon
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how John Bacon called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Bo Naylor vs Stephen Kolek - 2-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
David Fry vs Daniel Lynch IV - 3-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Steven Kwan vs Stephen Kolek
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.
- 1Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Steven Kwan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Bo Naylor — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5David Fry — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.