COL @ MIL
Home plate: David Rackley
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
What this shows — how David Rackley called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Troy Johnston vs Shane Drohan - 2+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Tyler Freeman vs Shane Drohan - 3+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball
Kyle Karros vs Craig Yoho
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Yelich — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.