NYY @ BOS
Home plate: Austin Jones
“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”
What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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
- 1-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Ben Rice vs Connelly Early - 2-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Masataka Yoshida vs Luis Gil - 3-0.10▼7 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Caleb Durbin vs Brent Headrick
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Aaron Judge — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.