CWS @ SF
Home plate: Louie Krupa
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Louie Krupa called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Miguel Vargas vs Adrian Houser - 2-0.28▼4 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bryce Eldridge vs Erick Fedde - 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Andrew Benintendi vs Adrian Houser
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Matt Chapman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.