“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Taylor Walls vs Brandon Young - 2-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Taylor Walls vs Brandon Young - 3-0.13▼9 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Christian Franklin vs Garrett Cleavinger
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.
- 1Kenny Piper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Richie Palacios — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Kenny Piper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.