ATL @ HOU
Home plate: Lance Barrett
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Lance Barrett called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Yordan Alvarez vs Tyler Mahle - 2+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Peter Lambert - 3-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike
Drake Baldwin vs Peter Lambert
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.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.