CHC @ WSH
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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
Alex Bregman vs Cade Cavalli - 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Andrés Chaparro vs Kevin Gausman - 3-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Miguel Amaya vs Cade Cavalli
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.
- 1Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.