HOU @ CWS
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Sean Newcomb - 2+0.21▼6 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged
Braden Montgomery vs Ronel Blanco - 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Sam Antonacci vs Ronel Blanco
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.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.