SEA @ HOU
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Josh Naylor vs Lance McCullers Jr. - 2+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Zach Dezenzo vs Bryce Miller - 3-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Cal Raleigh vs Lance McCullers Jr.
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.