PIT @ CHC
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 138 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. 127 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.21▲7 · 3-0 ball called strike
Brandon Lowe vs Jacob Webb - 2+0.19▲7 · 2-0 strike called ball
Brandon Lowe vs Jacob Webb - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jacob Gonzalez vs Clay Holmes
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Pete Crow-Armstrong — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Bryan Reynolds — 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.