LAA @ HOU
Home plate: Brennan Miller
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 213 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 202 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+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Isaac Paredes vs Drew Pomeranz - 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Yordan Alvarez vs Jack Kochanowicz - 3-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Mike Trout vs Bryan Abreu
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.
- 1Mike Trout — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Mike Trout — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Mike Trout — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — 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.