“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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
- 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
José Caballero vs Braydon Fisher - 2+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
George Lombard Jr. vs Simeon Woods Richardson - 3+0.19▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Alejandro Kirk vs Cam Schlittler
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.