BOS @ NYY
Home plate: Sean Barber
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Ben Rice vs Sonny Gray - 2+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
Ben Rice vs Danny Coulombe - 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Sonny Gray
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mickey Gasper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.