CLE @ BAL
Home plate: Charlie Ramos
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
José Ramírez vs Brandon Young - 2+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Jackson Holliday vs Tanner Bibee - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Brayan Rocchio vs Brandon Young
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.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.