CLE @ BAL
Home plate: Chris Guccione
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 156 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. 142 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Patrick Bailey vs Josh Walker - 2-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Angel Genao vs Trevor Rogers - 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Angel Genao vs Trevor Rogers
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dylan Beavers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.