MIL @ HOU
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Yordan Alvarez vs Brandon Sproat - 2+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
Christian Yelich vs Peter Lambert - 3+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jake Meyers vs Carlos Rodriguez
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.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.