TB @ BAL
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 107 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 100 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▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Gunnar Henderson vs Freddy Peralta - 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Liam Hicks vs Trevor Rogers - 3+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
Jorge Mateo vs Trevor Rogers
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.