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. He got 142 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
- 1-0.39▲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), not our error.