LAD @ DET
Home plate: Chris Guccione
“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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
- 1-0.19▼2 · 2-0 ball called strike
Ben Malgeri vs Blake Snell - 2-0.09▼3 · 0-0 ball called strike
Hao-Yu Lee vs Blake Snell - 3+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball
Kevin McGonigle vs Blake Snell
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Javier Báez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Spencer Torkelson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Ben Rortvedt — 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.