ATH @ KC
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 178 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▲5 · 3-1 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs Carlos Duran - 2-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Gage Jump - 3-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Darell Hernaiz vs John Schreiber
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Michael Massey — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Brian Serven — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Darell Hernaiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Zack Gelof — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Luke Maile — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.