AZ @ SF
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Drew Cavanaugh vs Kevin Ginkel - 2+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Grant McCray vs Justin Martinez - 3+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Drew Gilbert vs Justin Martinez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Andrew Knizner — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.