“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
James Wood vs Logan Webb - 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Jorbit Vivas vs Logan Webb - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Wood vs Logan Webb
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Willy Adames — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Eric Haase — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Curtis Mead — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.