SF @ SEA
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Julio Rodríguez vs Sam Hentges - 2+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Willy Adames vs Andrés Muñoz - 3+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
Luis Arraez vs Bryan Woo
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Julio Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.