CWS @ SEA
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 136 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+0.69▲8 · 3-2 strike called ball
Tristan Peters vs Luis Castillo - 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Colt Emerson vs Anthony Kay - 3-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
Luisangel Acuña vs Andrés Muñoz
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.