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. He got 137 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▼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), not our error.