NYY @ AZ
Home plate: Cory Blaser
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What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Spencer Jones vs Jonathan Loáisiga - 2-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Corbin Carroll vs Brent Headrick - 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
Tim Tawa vs Luis Gil
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.