SD @ COL
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Troy Johnston vs Robbie Ray - 2+0.19▲7 · 2-0 strike called ball
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Jimmy Herget - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Manny Machado vs Mason Adams
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Braxton Fulford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ethan Salas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Braxton Fulford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ethan Salas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.