TEX @ LAA
Home plate: Sean Barber
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ezequiel Duran vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Evan Carter vs Grayson Rodriguez - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Josh Jung vs Grayson Rodriguez
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.
- 1Evan Carter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.