LAA @ BAL
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Colton Cowser vs Ben Joyce - 2+0.19▲7 · 2-0 strike called ball
Vaughn Grissom vs Alex Hoppe - 3-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jose Siri vs Yennier Cano
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Yennier Cano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.