WSH @ AZ
Home plate: Scott Barry
“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”
What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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
- 1-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Corbin Carroll vs Orlando Ribalta - 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Geraldo Perdomo vs Zack Littell - 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Gabriel Moreno vs Zack Littell
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.