CWS @ HOU
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“The zone had a case of the wanders.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 124 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Chase Meidroth vs Hunter Brown - 2+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Sam Antonacci vs Bennett Sousa - 3-0.23▲8 · 0-2 ball called strike
Andrew Benintendi vs Bryan Abreu
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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.