DET @ TB
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“A few he'd want back, and the grade says so.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
- 1-0.39▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Zach McKinstry vs Ian Seymour - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Zack Short vs Bryan Baker - 3+0.19▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Spencer Torkelson vs Casey Legumina
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Zach McKinstry — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.