BAL @ BOS
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Marcelo Mayer vs Albert Suárez - 2-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
Caleb Durbin vs Albert Suárez - 3-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Masataka Yoshida vs Grant Wolfram
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mickey Gasper — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.