SEA @ WSH
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 115 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 106 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
- 1-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jhonny Pereda vs Riley Cornelio - 2+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
James Wood vs Bryce Miller - 3-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jhonny Pereda vs Paxton Schultz
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 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.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.