SD @ LAD
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Manny Machado vs Edwin Díaz - 2+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Josue De Paula vs Michael King - 3+0.21▼2 · 3-0 strike called ball
Tommy Edman vs Michael King
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.