SF @ ATH
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Nick Kurtz vs Trevor McDonald - 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged
Rafael Devers vs Luis Severino - 3+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drew Gilbert vs Scott Barlow
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brent Rooker — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Rafael Devers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jesus Rodriguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.