TOR @ TB
Home plate: Chris Guccione
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball
Brandon Valenzuela vs Drew Rasmussen - 2+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Yandy Díaz vs Kevin Gausman - 3+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Andrés Giménez vs Hunter Bigge
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.