HOU @ WSH
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike
Curtis Mead vs Spencer Arrighetti - 2-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
James Wood vs Spencer Arrighetti - 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
James Wood vs Spencer Arrighetti
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.