MIN @ PIT
Home plate: Jansen Visconti
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Jansen Visconti called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Endy Rodríguez vs Taj Bradley - 2+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Tristan Gray vs Wilber Dotel - 3+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Brooks Lee vs Wilber Dotel
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.