LAA @ ATH
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Colby Thomas vs Reid Detmers - 2+0.20▲8 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Vaughn Grissom vs Hogan Harris - 3+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Jacob Wilson vs Reid Detmers
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.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Oswald Peraza — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Jacob Wilson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.