MIL @ STL
Home plate: Adam Hamari
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Iván Herrera vs Robert Gasser - 2+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Gary Sánchez vs Jared Shuster - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Luis Lara vs Hunter Dobbins
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.