CWS @ MIN
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kody Clemens vs Sean Newcomb - 2+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Sam Antonacci vs Bailey Ober - 3+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Munetaka Murakami vs Bailey Ober
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.
- 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.