CLE @ DET
Home plate: Sean Barber
“The robots earned their keep tonight.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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 ✓
Patrick Bailey vs Drew Anderson - 2-0.30▲3 · 3-1 ball called strike
Steven Kwan vs Drew Anderson - 3+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brayan Rocchio vs Drew Sommers
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Anderson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Javier Báez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Zach McKinstry — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.