COL @ PIT
Home plate: Brock Ballou
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Spencer Horwitz vs Jimmy Herget - 2-0.13▼3 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged
Bryan Reynolds vs Michael Lorenzen - 3+0.10▲5 · 0-1 strike called ball
Tyler Freeman vs Paul Skenes
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Lowe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.