CLE @ MIL
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 212 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 199 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▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Travis Bazzana vs Shane Drohan - 2+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Gary Sánchez vs Parker Messick - 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Brice Turang vs Parker Messick
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.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Stuart Fairchild — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.