CWS @ LAA
Home plate: Jansen Visconti
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Jansen Visconti called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Zach Neto vs Erick Fedde - 2+0.10▲6 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Sam Antonacci vs Drew Pomeranz - 3+0.10▲7 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jarred Kelenic vs Sam Bachman
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.
- 1Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.