BOS @ NYY
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“You could set a watch by that zone.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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+0.21▼8 · 3-0 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Andruw Monasterio - 2-0.20▲1 · 2-1 ball called strike
Adley Rutschman vs Will Warren - 3-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
José Caballero vs Andruw Monasterio
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.