MIA @ KC
Home plate: Chris Guccione
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 125 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. 117 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+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Heriberto Hernández vs Craig Kimbrel - 2+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Carter Jensen vs Cade Gibson - 3+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Sandy Alcantara
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Vinnie Pasquantino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.