LAA @ PIT
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 143 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. 129 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+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Esmerlyn Valdez vs Yusei Kikuchi - 2+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Denzer Guzman vs Isaac Mattson - 3+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Zach Neto vs Braxton Ashcraft
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.