MIN @ SEA
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kody Clemens vs Logan Gilbert - 2-0.39▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Mitch Garver vs Taylor Rogers - 3+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Kody Clemens vs Logan Gilbert
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.