TB @ TEX
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Cedric Mullins vs Cal Quantrill - 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jake Burger vs Shane McClanahan - 3+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Cedric Mullins vs Cal Quantrill
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.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cedric Mullins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Cedric Mullins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.