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Home plate: Chris Guccione
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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
- 1-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Dean Kremer - 2-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
Kody Clemens vs Steven Cruz - 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Josh Bell vs Noah Cameron
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.