DET @ TOR
Home plate: Dan Iassogna
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Dan Iassogna called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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+0.69▲9 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kevin McGonigle vs Louis Varland - 2+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kevin McGonigle vs Max Scherzer - 3-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
George Springer vs Keider Montero
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.