KC @ MIN
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 115 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 104 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
- 1-0.69▲2 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nick Loftin vs Zebby Matthews - 2-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Austin Martin vs Beck Way - 3+0.21▲7 · 3-0 strike called ball
Isaac Collins vs Zebby Matthews
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.
- 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nick Loftin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.