SF @ NYM
Home plate: David Rackley
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how David Rackley called the 128 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. 115 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+0.21▼6 · 3-0 strike called ball
Francisco Lindor vs Cesar Perdomo - 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Drew Gilbert vs Christian Scott - 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Drew Gilbert vs Christian Scott
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Gilbert — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Grant McCray — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 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.