CLE @ CWS
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Steven Kwan vs Sean Burke - 2+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Randal Grichuk vs Parker Messick - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Kahlil Watson vs Sean Burke
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.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.