CLE @ MIN
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Josh Bell vs Gavin Williams - 2+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Trevor Larnach vs Gavin Williams - 3+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
Steven Kwan vs Woo-Suk Go
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.