BAL @ TB
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jackson Holliday vs Joe Boyle - 2-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Ryan Vilade vs Trevor Rogers - 3+0.10▼7 · 0-1 strike called ball
Taylor Walls vs Alex Hoppe
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yohel Pozo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.