ATH @ HOU
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Carlos Cortes vs Mike Burrows - 2+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Isaac Paredes vs Hogan Harris - 3+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jeremy Peña vs Mark Leiter Jr.
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.