BAL @ HOU
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 193 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 178 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+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jackson Holliday vs Peter Lambert - 2-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Lucas Spence vs Dean Kremer - 3+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Jeremy Peña vs Dean Kremer
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dylan Beavers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.