CHC @ SEA
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“You could set a watch by that zone.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Tyrone Taylor vs Seranthony Domínguez - 2-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Seiya Suzuki vs Kade Anderson - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Dominic Canzone vs Trent Thornton
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.