ATH @ SEA
Home plate: Sean Barber
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 146 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. 138 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+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball
J.P. Crawford vs Brady Basso - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Lawrence Butler vs Logan Gilbert - 3+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jeff McNeil vs Logan Gilbert
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Julio Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.