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. He got 117 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
- 1-0.13▼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), not our error.