TOR @ CHC
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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+0.19▲9 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Alejandro Kirk vs Hoby Milner - 2+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Seiya Suzuki vs Kevin Gausman - 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jesús Sánchez vs Ben Brown
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Davis Schneider — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.