SD @ COL
Home plate: Jansen Visconti
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Jansen Visconti called the 146 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. 138 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▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Xander Bogaerts vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 2+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Freddy Fermin vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 3+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Manny Machado vs Tomoyuki Sugano
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.