TEX @ CWS
Home plate: Scott Barry
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how Scott Barry called the 201 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Sam Antonacci vs Jacob deGrom - 2-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
Elias Díaz vs Hagen Smith - 3+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Colson Montgomery vs Cole Winn
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.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Brandon Nimmo — 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.