SEA @ BOS
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Caleb Durbin vs George Kirby - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Randy Arozarena vs Payton Tolle - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Caleb Durbin vs George Kirby
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1J.P. Crawford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.