CWS @ BOS
Home plate: Chris Conroy
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 235 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 224 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▲1 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged
Munetaka Murakami vs Ranger Suarez - 2-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Randal Grichuk vs Ranger Suarez - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Caleb Durbin vs Luis Castillo
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.
- 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Caleb Durbin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.