TOR @ LAA
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 107 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▲6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Ernie Clement vs Jack Kochanowicz - 2+0.21▲4 · 3-0 strike called ball
Eloy Jiménez vs Jack Kochanowicz - 3-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Nolan Schanuel vs Patrick Corbin
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.