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Home plate: Charlie Ramos
“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”
What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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+0.69▲9 · 3-2 strike called ball
Luke Keaschall vs Easton McGee - 2+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Alan Roden vs Nate Pearson - 3+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Loftin vs Kody Funderburk
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
8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 7Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 8Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.