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Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 166 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. 154 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▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Braden Montgomery vs Bailey Ober - 2+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Trevor Larnach vs Hagen Smith - 3+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
Alex Jackson vs Tyler Davis
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.
- 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 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.