CHC @ TB
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Jake Fraley vs Colin Rea - 2+0.69▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jake Fraley vs Hoby Milner - 3-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Alex Bregman vs Jesse Scholtens
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ben Williamson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.