AZ @ SD
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Gabriel Moreno vs Germán Márquez - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Xander Bogaerts vs Zac Gallen - 3+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Manny Machado vs Zac Gallen
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.
- 1James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Fernando Tatis Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.