TEX @ SEA
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Cal Raleigh vs Jacob deGrom - 2+0.21▼1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Cal Raleigh vs Jacob deGrom - 3+0.19▲9 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Evan Carter vs Casey Legumina
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luke Raley — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Josh Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.