TB @ LAD
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 98 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 84 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+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Andy Pages vs Drew Rasmussen - 2+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs Drew Rasmussen - 3-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Shohei Ohtani vs Drew Rasmussen
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Vilade — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Chuckie Robinson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.