LAA @ TB
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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▲8 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Zach Neto vs Hunter Bigge - 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Vaughn Grissom vs Nick Martinez - 3+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
Zach Neto vs Nick Martinez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.