SF @ NYM
Home plate: Brock Ballou
“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”
What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 170 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. 149 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Juan Soto vs Yunior Marte - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drew Cavanaugh vs Nolan McLean - 3-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Nate Furman vs Nolan McLean
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Turner Hill — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Juan Soto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 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.