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Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Brian Serven vs Connor Prielipp - 2+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Lawrence Butler vs Connor Prielipp - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Brooks Lee vs J.T. Ginn
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Lawrence Butler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Kaelen Culpepper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.