HOU @ CLE
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 184 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 175 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▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Rhys Hoskins vs Spencer Arrighetti - 2-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
George Valera vs Spencer Arrighetti - 3-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Taylor Trammell vs Slade Cecconi
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.
- 1Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2José Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.