NYY @ CWS
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Anthony Volpe vs Jordan Hicks - 2+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Anthony Volpe vs Jordan Hicks - 3-0.13▲7 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged
Paul Goldschmidt vs Tyler Schweitzer
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 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.
- 2Miguel Vargas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Paul Goldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.