“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Adam Beck called the 156 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. 150 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▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Agustín Ramírez vs Blake Snell - 2-0.39▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Otto Lopez vs Blake Snell - 3+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Kyle Stowers vs Blake Snell
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 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.