MIA @ HOU
Home plate: Sean Barber
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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▼7 · 1-2 ball called strike
Christian Vázquez vs Ryan Gusto - 2-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Tyler Phillips - 3-0.21▲3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Otto Lopez vs Tatsuya Imai
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3LaMonte Wade Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Esteury Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.