SF @ LAD
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Jesus Rodriguez vs Roki Sasaki - 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Mookie Betts vs Trevor McDonald - 3-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Matt Chapman vs Roki Sasaki
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Matt Chapman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Will Smith — 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.