“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Ron Kulpa called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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▲2 · 2-2 ball called strike
Isaac Paredes vs Reid Detmers - 2+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Mike Trout vs Peter Lambert - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Trey Mancini vs Peter Lambert
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.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.