TOR @ KC
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 137 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. 128 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+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Kyle Isbel vs Michael Lorenzen - 2-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Salvador Perez vs Jameson Taillon - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Carter Jensen vs Joe Mantiply
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.