NYM @ TEX
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Elias Díaz vs Zac Thornton - 2+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Morabito vs Kumar Rocker - 3-0.39▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike
Nick Morabito vs Chase Silseth
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1A.J. Ewing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.