MIN @ DET
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Josh Bell vs Beau Brieske - 2-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Luke Keaschall vs Drew Anderson - 3-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike
Walker Jenkins vs Brant Hurter
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Drew Anderson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.