LAD @ COL
Home plate: James Jean
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how James Jean called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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
- 1-0.30▲8 · 3-1 ball called strike
Alex Freeland vs Jimmy Herget - 2+0.20▼6 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Willi Castro vs Will Klein - 3+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Alex Call vs Michael Lorenzen
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Michael Lorenzen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Michael Lorenzen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Ezequiel Tovar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.