MIL @ MIA
Home plate: Derek Thomas
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What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 196 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Xavier Edwards vs Angel Zerpa - 2+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jake Bauers vs Janson Junk - 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Liam Hicks vs Coleman Crow
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 5 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Connor Norby — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.