CLE @ MIN
Home plate: Sean Barber
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Chase DeLauter vs Joe Ryan - 2-0.69▼9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Walker Jenkins vs Matt Festa - 3+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Angel Genao vs Tommy Nance
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Joe Ryan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.