SEA @ PIT
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball
Spencer Horwitz vs Bryan Woo - 2+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jared Triolo vs Bryan Woo - 3+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jared Triolo vs Bryan Woo
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.