TB @ NYY
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Austin Wells vs Griffin Jax - 2-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
George Lombard Jr. vs Griffin Jax - 3-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Liam Hicks vs Max Fried
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2George Lombard Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Griffin Jax — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Liam Hicks — 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.