CWS @ HOU
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Chase Meidroth vs Hunter Brown - 2-0.23▲8 · 0-2 ball called strike
Andrew Benintendi vs Bryan Abreu - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez vs Luis Castillo
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.