AZ @ ATL
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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
- 1-0.20▼9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Brandyn Garcia - 2-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Nolan Arenado vs Dylan Dodd - 3-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
Ildemaro Vargas vs Chris Sale
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.