LAD @ SF
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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 ball called strike
Scott Bandura vs Roki Sasaki - 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Hunter Feduccia vs Braxton Roxby - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Victor Bericoto vs Justin Wrobleski
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jonah Cox — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Hunter Feduccia — 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.