A fool who only knows how to raise the anger gauge and strike ABS

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3 min readMay 1, 2024

Hwang Jae-gyun strikes out in the top of the 4th inning of a professional baseball game on the 26th.

Hwang Jae-gyun (37, KT) came to bat with 2 outs and 1st base in the top of the 4th inning of a professional baseball Munhak game on the 26th.

In a ball count of 1 ball and 2 strikes, SSG starter Oh Won-seok (23) threw a fastball toward Hwang Jae-gyun’s body.

SSG catcher Lee Ji-young (38) did not catch the ball, but the Automatic Ball and Strike System (ABS) judged the ball to be a strike.

When referee Lee Gye-seong (47), who was in charge of the pitch in this game, declared a strikeout, Hwang Jae-gyun threw his helmet on the floor and was ordered to leave.

The person who was most at fault in this situation was Hwang Jae-gyun.

Jae-gyun Hwang should have run to first base instead of showing his dissatisfaction with ABS’s decision.

There was a runner on first base, but with two outs, it was a strike out and not out. Even though he didn’t like the ABS call, he could have stepped on first base, but he squandered that opportunity by venting his displeasure.

So, is there anything wrong with ABS judging this ball to be a strike?

This scene can be said to be a problem caused by ABS interpreting the rules too ‘straightforwardly’.

So until now, it has been common for human referees to ‘interpret’ the strike zone differently in these situations.

No matter how much the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) claims that “ABS pitch tracking success rate reaches 99.9%,” we can also see why there are constant complaints in the so-called “field.”

Hanwha pitchers, including Ryu Hyun-jin (37), expressed disappointment about ABS several times in the Suwon KT game on the 23rd and 24th.

Then, on the 26th, KBO released ABS pitch tracking data down to the 0.01cm unit.

According to this, the third ball that Ryu Hyun-jin threw to KT Cho Yong-ho (35) in the bottom of the third inning of the game on the 24th passed the midpoint of the home plate 0.15 cm above the bottom of the strike zone.

However, KBO explains that at the end of the home plate, the ball was hit because it missed the bottom of the zone by 0.78cm.

Here, let’s take a quick look at a zero-range shooting target.

Anyone who has served in the military will know that a trainee with zero-point shooting results like this is a well-prepared special marksman.

This is because the Tanchak-gun are tightly packed together.

This trainee can form a group of bullets near the aiming point by simply controlling the ‘click’.

In statistics, this situation is described as ‘precise, but not accurate.’

Let’s assume that there is a scale that always displays a 1000g weight (a standard weight) as 1200g.

I put a fish on this scale at the fish market and it came out as 1200g.

So how much does this fish actually weigh?

It is not difficult to guess that the actual weight is 1000g. 고스톱

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