BAL @ NYM
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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
- 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Francisco Lindor vs Brandon Young - 2-0.21▼1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Francisco Lindor vs Brandon Young - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bo Bichette vs Brandon Young
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.