HOU @ DET
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez vs Keider Montero - 2-0.23▲2 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Joey Loperfido vs Keider Montero - 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
Colt Keith vs Jake Meyers
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joey Loperfido — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.