ATH @ CIN
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Donovan Walton vs Brady Singer - 2-0.39▼3 · 2-2 ball called strike
Elly De La Cruz vs J.T. Ginn - 3-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike
JJ Bleday vs J.T. Ginn
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Elly De La Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.