LAA @ BOS
Home plate: Carlos Torres
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 147 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. 135 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Zach Neto vs Jake Bennett - 2-0.23▲3 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Zach Neto vs Jake Bennett - 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Christian Moore vs Jovani Morán
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Nick Sogard — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jarren Duran — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Mickey Gasper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.