“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Brandon Young - 2+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Coby Mayo vs Ryan Yarbrough - 3-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Austin Wells vs Brandon Young
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.
- 1Yohel Pozo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Yohel Pozo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.