SD @ MIL
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Castellanos vs Shane Drohan - 2+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball
Ramón Laureano vs Abner Uribe - 3+0.21▼2 · 3-0 strike called ball
William Contreras vs Matt Waldron
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 strike: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.