COL @ LAA
Home plate: Brian Walsh
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Brian Walsh called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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 strike called ball
Jake McCarthy vs José Fermin - 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Oswald Peraza vs Kyle Freeland - 3+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Edouard Julien vs José Soriano
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4José Soriano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Sterlin Thompson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.