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, 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
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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.