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Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Kaelen Culpepper vs Elvis Alvarado - 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 strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Kaelen Culpepper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.