NYY @ SD
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 121 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. 116 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
- 1-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Samad Taylor vs Max Fried - 2+0.10▲8 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Austin Wells vs Adrian Morejon - 3-0.09▲1 · 0-0 ball called strike
Cody Bellinger vs Walker Buehler
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1George Lombard Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.