SD @ MIA
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Manny Machado vs Tyler Zuber - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Ryan Gusto - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Otto Lopez vs Bradgley Rodriguez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Esteury Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.