STL @ SF
Home plate: Sean Barber
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Bryce Eldridge vs Quinn Mathews - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Grant McCray vs Quinn Mathews - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Turner Hill vs Quinn Mathews
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andrew Knizner — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Iván Herrera — 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.