PIT @ ATH
Home plate: Charlie Ramos
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
- 1-0.21▲5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Spencer Horwitz vs J.T. Ginn - 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Spencer Horwitz vs Justin Sterner - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ryan O'Hearn vs J.T. Ginn
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan O'Hearn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Jeff McNeil — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.