STL @ SD
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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
- 1-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Victor Scott II vs Griffin Canning - 2+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Xander Bogaerts vs Michael McGreevy - 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jordan Walker vs Griffin Canning
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Victor Scott II — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.