STL @ KC
Home plate: Tripp Gibson
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Nathan Church vs Seth Lugo - 2+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
Iván Herrera vs Seth Lugo - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Carter Jensen vs Michael McGreevy
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.