LAD @ COL
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs Nick Frasso - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Andy Pages vs Kyle Freeland - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Mookie Betts vs Kyle Freeland
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Adael Amador — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.