TEX @ CLE
Home plate: Brian O'Nora
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Brian O'Nora called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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
- 1-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Steven Kwan vs Jacob deGrom - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Josh Jung vs Tanner Bibee - 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Josh Jung vs Tanner Bibee
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cooper Ingle — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.