HOU @ SEA
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 182 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Josh Naylor vs Cristian Javier - 2+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jose Altuve vs Carlos Vargas - 3-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Lazaro Montes vs Miguel Ullola
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Julio Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.