BOS @ MIA
Home plate: David Rackley
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how David Rackley called the 185 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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+0.30▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Mickey Gasper vs Tyler Phillips - 2+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Brian Navarreto vs Payton Tolle - 3-0.13▲10 · 1-0 ball called strike
Wilyer Abreu vs Calvin Faucher
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
9 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 5 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Wilyer Abreu — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Esteury Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Brian Navarreto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Javier Sanoja — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 7Willson Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 8Caleb Durbin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 9Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.