TB @ BAL
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Coby Mayo vs Steven Matz - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Richie Palacios vs Trey Gibson - 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Junior Caminero vs Trey Gibson
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Vilade — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.