MIA @ AZ
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 188 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 174 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+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Lars Nootbaar vs Janson Junk - 2+0.21▼7 · 3-0 strike called ball
Gabriel Moreno vs Michael Petersen - 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Lars Nootbaar vs Cade Gibson
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Otto Lopez — 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.