LAA @ ATH
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball
Nick Kurtz vs Ryan Zeferjahn - 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nolan Schanuel vs J.T. Ginn - 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Donovan Walton vs Geoff Hartlieb
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.