TB @ NYY
Home plate: Sean Barber
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 101 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▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
George Lombard Jr. vs Nick Martinez - 2+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Nick Martinez - 3-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
José Caballero vs Ty Johnson
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.
- 1Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Heliot Ramos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.