KC @ LAD
Home plate: John Bacon
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how John Bacon called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Tarik Skubal - 2-0.69▼7 · 3-2 ball called strike
Andy Pages vs Alex Lange - 3+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Kyle Isbel vs Tarik Skubal
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Miguel Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.