MIL @ PIT
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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
- 1-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
Brice Turang vs Gregory Soto - 2-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Christian Yelich vs Braxton Ashcraft - 3-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Joey Ortiz vs Braxton Ashcraft
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ryan O'Hearn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Joey Ortiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Henry Davis — 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.