COL @ MIN
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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▲8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Edouard Julien vs Taj Bradley - 2+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Edouard Julien vs Taj Bradley - 3+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Hunter Goodman vs Taj Bradley
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Trevor Larnach — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.