SD @ MIL
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Kyle Harrison - 2-0.39▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike
Ty France vs Brian Fitzpatrick - 3-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sal Frelick — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Gary Sánchez — 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.