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Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 130 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+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brett Bateman vs Gerrit Cole - 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Kazuma Okamoto vs Gerrit Cole - 3-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ryan McMahon vs Shane Bieber
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1George Springer — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ryan McMahon — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.