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. He got 127 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
- 1-0.21▲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), not our error.