“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”
What this shows — how Ben May called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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
- 1-0.13▲7 · 1-0 ball called strike
Joey Bart vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 2-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. vs Evan Sisk - 3-0.10▲9 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Marcell Ozuna vs Brandyn Garcia
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.
- 1Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Marcell Ozuna — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.