BAL @ STL
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Christian Franklin vs Matthew Liberatore - 2-0.23▼1 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jordan Walker vs Chris Bassitt - 3+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Leody Taveras vs Peter Strzelecki
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 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.
- 2Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Joshua Báez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Coby Mayo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.