BAL @ MIN
Home plate: Adam Hamari
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Adam Hamari called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Luke Keaschall vs Trevor Rogers - 2-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
Tyler O'Neill vs Taylor Rogers - 3+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Dylan Beavers vs Dean Kremer
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luke Keaschall — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Gunnar Henderson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Yohel Pozo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.