AZ @ COL
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Gabriel Moreno vs Seth Halvorsen - 2-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Gabriel Moreno vs Kyle Freeland - 3-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. vs Kyle Freeland
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mickey Moniak — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Edouard Julien — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.