LAD @ CHC
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 141 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+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Michael Busch vs Eric Lauer - 2+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ian Happ vs Eric Lauer - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs Shota Imanaga
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tommy Edman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Tommy Edman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.