“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Ben May called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Kevin McGonigle vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Kevin McGonigle vs Grayson Rodriguez - 3-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Oswald Peraza vs Ricky Vanasco
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Oswald Peraza — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.