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Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 173 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+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ryan Kreidler vs Sam Bachman - 2-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Walker Jenkins vs Ryan Watson - 3-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Luke Keaschall vs Ryan Watson
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Royce Lewis — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.