SEA @ SD
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 123 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Gavin Sheets vs Bryan Woo - 2-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
Cal Raleigh vs Jason Adam - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Manny Machado vs Bryan Woo
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.