SD @ WSH
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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 strike called ball
Ramón Laureano vs Andrew Alvarez - 2+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
CJ Abrams vs Adrian Morejon - 3-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Ty France vs Andrew Alvarez
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.