NYM @ COL
Home plate: Sean Barber
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball
Francisco Alvarez vs Juan Mejia - 2+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Willi Castro vs Huascar Brazobán - 3+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball
Vidal Bruján vs Juan Mejia
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.