“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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
- 1-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
Luke Raley vs Roki Sasaki - 2+0.19▲6 · 2-0 strike called ball
Cal Raleigh vs Roki Sasaki - 3-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs Bryan Woo
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Tommy Edman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Mookie Betts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.