TEX @ AZ
Home plate: Brian Walsh
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Brian Walsh called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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
- 1-0.39▲2 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jake Burger vs Merrill Kelly - 2-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jake Burger vs Merrill Kelly - 3-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Gabriel Moreno vs Chase Silseth
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Waldschmidt — 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.