STL @ WSH
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 208 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 193 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+0.69▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Curtis Mead vs Matthew Liberatore - 2+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Pedro Pagés vs Cade Cavalli - 3+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
James Wood vs George Soriano
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jordan Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.