LAD @ COL
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jordan Beck vs Blake Snell - 2+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Juan Mejia - 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Brett Sullivan vs Blake Snell
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.
- 1Jordan Beck — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Zac Veen — 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.