LAD @ NYM
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
Jorge Polanco vs Edgardo Henriquez - 2-0.28▲2 · 1-2 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs Nolan McLean - 3-0.13▲4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Mookie Betts vs Nolan McLean
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1A.J. Ewing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jorge Polanco — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.