TB @ LAD
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 155 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
- 1-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
Miguel Rojas vs Shane McClanahan - 2-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
Alex Freeland vs Shane McClanahan - 3-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Mookie Betts vs Shane McClanahan
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mookie Betts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.