MIL @ ATH
Home plate: Brock Ballou
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 105 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 96 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+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Christian Yelich vs Jack Perkins - 2-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nick Kurtz vs Aaron Ashby - 3-0.21▼7 · 3-0 ball called strike
Nick Kurtz vs Aaron Ashby
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.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nick Kurtz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.