CLE @ MIA
Home plate: Brian Walsh
“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”
What this shows — how Brian Walsh called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Chase DeLauter vs Sandy Alcantara - 2+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged
Heriberto Hernández vs Parker Messick - 3-0.09▼6 · 0-0 ball called strike
Xavier Edwards vs Parker Messick
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kahlil Watson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Esteury Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Joe Mack — 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.