TB @ LAA
Home plate: David Rackley
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how David Rackley called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Donovan Walton vs Craig Kimbrel - 2-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nolan Schanuel vs Cole Sulser - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Taylor Walls vs José Soriano
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.