CLE @ BAL
Home plate: David Rackley
“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”
What this shows — how David Rackley called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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
- 1-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Pete Alonso vs Franco Aleman - 2+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Rece Hinds vs Foster Griffin - 3-0.23▲9 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jo Adell vs Rico Garcia
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nathaniel Lowe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jo Adell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.