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Home plate: Sean Barber
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Carson Benge vs Adam Macko - 2-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Daulton Varsho vs Nolan McLean - 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Alejandro Kirk vs Nolan McLean
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.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ernie Clement — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Alejandro Kirk — 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.