BOS @ TB
Home plate: Brock Ballou
“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”
What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 182 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+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Wilyer Abreu vs Alex Cook - 2+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball
Junior Caminero vs Ranger Suarez - 3-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Ryan Vilade vs Ranger Suarez
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Connor Wong — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jonny DeLuca — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Roman Anthony — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.