DET @ CWS
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
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What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Luisangel Acuña vs Beau Brieske - 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Colson Montgomery vs Framber Valdez - 3-0.23▲6 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Wenceel Pérez vs Grant Taylor
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Wenceel Pérez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Hao-Yu Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.