LAA @ HOU
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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
- 1-0.19▼1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Isaac Paredes vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Josh Lowe vs Bryan King - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged
Taylor Trammell vs Grayson Rodriguez
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.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Mike Trout — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.