SF @ AZ
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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▼3 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Gabriel Moreno vs Landen Roupp - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Geraldo Perdomo vs Landen Roupp - 3+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Gabriel Moreno vs Adrian Houser
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Lourdes Gurriel Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Pavin Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.