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. He got 128 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+0.23▼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), not our error.