NYY @ MIL
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs DL Hall - 2-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
William Contreras vs Cam Schlittler - 3-0.23▼4 · 0-2 ball called strike
Tyler Black vs Cam Schlittler
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.