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. He got 141 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▼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), not our error.