LAA @ MIN
Home plate: Brian O'Nora
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Brian O'Nora called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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+0.10▼6 · 0-1 strike called ball
Austin Martin vs Samy Natera Jr. - 2+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
Nolan Schanuel vs Zebby Matthews - 3+0.09▼1 · 0-0 strike called ball
Royce Lewis vs Grayson Rodriguez
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.
- 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Brooks Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Trevor Larnach — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Tyler Heineman — 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.