MLB Automated Ball-Strike System Sees 61% Success Rate in Opening Games
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📌 Key Takeaways
- MLB's Automated Ball-Strike System achieved a 61.3% success rate on challenges in its opening games.
- The system uses Hawk-Eye technology with 12 cameras to measure pitches with high accuracy.
- Managers noted the need for players to adjust to overturned calls, affecting game strategy and focus.
- Specific game examples highlighted overturned calls on full counts, impacting walks and strikeouts.
📖 Full Retelling
Terry Francona had every reason not be a fan of the Automated Ball-Strike System, after the Cincinnati Reds' 3-0 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Thursday. However, the longtime manager was taking the long view after game one of 162. Francona saw a walk by Eugenio Suarez on a full count overturned to a strikeout in the fourth inning while Connor Phillips' ninth-inning strikeout of Boston's Roman Anthony — also on a full count — overturned to a walk. "I think our pitchers are going to have to get used to thinking the inning might be over, and it’s not," Francona said. "It’s almost like when a guy comes out and you say, ‘Hey, way to go. Can you get one more?’ So you’re going to have to stay dialed in." Teams had a 61.3% success rate on challenges, going 19 of 31 through the first 12 games of the regular season. Using Hawk-Eye technology, 12 cameras measure whether a pitch crosses the strike zone with accuracy of about one-sixth of an inch. Red Sox manager Alex Cora was pleased after they were 2 of 3 on challenges. Even though there was one challenge he wished one of his hitters would have made. Trevor Story was up with two outs and runners on first and second in the fifth inning. Story was caught looking on a fastball by Andrew Abbott that looked to be a ball. "You just have to make sure. There was one early where Trevor is in that situation again, he’d probably challenge," Cora said. "We thought the pitch was up. We don’t mind him challenging there because it changes the whole thing, right? We were talking about it. It’s a different ballgame now." The Red Sox did have a successful challenge in the bottom of the inning when Garrett Crochet's cutter just got the lower half of the strike zone against Suárez. Instead of Suárez drawing a walk, catcher Carlos Narvaez's challenge resulted in the third out of the inning. "He made a really good pitch right there. I thought it stayed down and it was a ball, but with the new ABS, good for him," Suárez said. [More MLB: A Three-Peat
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