“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 180 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. 166 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.30▼5 · 3-1 ball called strike
Travis Bazzana vs Sean Burke - 2-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Brayan Rocchio vs Sean Burke - 3-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
Jo Adell vs Sean Burke
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 7Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.