TEX @ TOR
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nathan Lukes vs MacKenzie Gore - 2+0.23▼9 · 0-2 strike called ball
Brandon Valenzuela vs Jacob Latz - 3-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Davis Schneider vs MacKenzie Gore
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 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.
- 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.