CHC @ TB
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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
- 1-0.23▲2 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Moisés Ballesteros vs Mason Englert - 2+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Miguel Amaya vs Cole Sulser - 3-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Nico Hoerner vs Mason Englert
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Nico Hoerner — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Pete Crow-Armstrong — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.