ATH @ DET
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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
- 1-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Jonah Heim vs Framber Valdez - 2+0.19▼7 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Outman vs Hogan Harris - 3+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Lawrence Butler vs Framber Valdez
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.