TB @ HOU
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cam Smith vs Mason Englert - 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez vs Mason Englert - 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Yordan Alvarez vs Mason Englert
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Mason Englert — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.