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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 148 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+0.13▲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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.