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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 139 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.30▼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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.