CWS @ BOS
Home plate: Brock Ballou
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball
Wilyer Abreu vs Chris Murphy - 2+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jahmai Jones vs Chris Murphy - 3+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Sonny Gray
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jahmai Jones — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.