LAA @ MIA
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Javier Sanoja vs Walbert Ureña - 2+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
Moisés Ballesteros vs Pete Fairbanks - 3-0.10▼8 · 0-1 ball called strike
Brian Navarreto vs Brett Kerry
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.