TEX @ CLE
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 108 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▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Gabriel Arias vs Jacob Latz - 2+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Travis Bazzana vs Jakob Junis - 3-0.19▼6 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Steven Kwan vs Robby Ahlstrom
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Steven Kwan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.