PIT @ CWS
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 151 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. 137 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+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball
Braden Montgomery vs Camilo Doval - 2+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Brandon Eisert - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Munetaka Murakami vs Lake Bachar
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Gonzales — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Camilo Doval — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.