CWS @ SEA
Home plate: Tripp Gibson
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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 ball called strike
Rob Refsnyder vs Noah Schultz - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Julio Rodríguez vs Noah Schultz - 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Rob Refsnyder vs Noah Schultz
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Rob Refsnyder — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Drew Romo — 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.