DET @ BAL
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 151 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▼2 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Colton Cowser vs Troy Melton - 2+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Spencer Torkelson vs Trevor Rogers - 3-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Adley Rutschman vs Troy Melton
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Colton Cowser — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Tyler O'Neill — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.