DET @ NYY
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Outman vs Will Warren - 2+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kevin McGonigle vs Will Warren - 3+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Matt Vierling vs Brent Headrick
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.