CHC @ MIL
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike
Christian Yelich vs Bryse Wilson - 2+0.69▲9 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ian Happ vs Trevor Megill - 3+0.30▼10 · 3-1 strike called ball
Garrett Mitchell vs Jordan Wicks
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.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Dansby Swanson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.