STL @ AZ
Home plate: Brian Walsh
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how Brian Walsh called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball
Corbin Carroll vs Dustin May - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Lars Nootbaar vs Kevin Ginkel - 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Lars Nootbaar vs Brandon Pfaadt
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2José Fermín — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.