BOS @ TB
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 100 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 94 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+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Austin Slater vs Payton Tolle - 2-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Willson Contreras vs Nick Martinez - 3-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Nick Fortes vs Garrett Whitlock
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.
- 1Mickey Gasper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Mickey Gasper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.