TB @ COL
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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
- 1-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Taylor Walls vs Zach Agnos - 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Taylor Walls vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ben Williamson vs Parker Mushinski
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.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cedric Mullins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ben Williamson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Edouard Julien — 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.