MIL @ TB
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 117 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Junior Caminero vs Jacob Misiorowski - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Chandler Simpson vs Jacob Misiorowski - 3+0.10▼5 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ryan Vilade vs Jacob Misiorowski
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.