LAA @ TOR
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jesús Sánchez vs José Soriano - 2-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Vaughn Grissom vs Eric Lauer - 3-0.23▲6 · 0-2 ball called strike
Jorge Soler vs Eric Lauer
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jesús Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.