SEA @ ATH
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 152 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. 141 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▼1 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Lawrence Butler vs Bryan Woo - 2+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cal Raleigh vs Seth Johnson - 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Cal Raleigh vs Carlos Cortes
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.