BAL @ KC
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
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What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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
- 1-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Maikel Garcia vs Chris Bassitt - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Colton Cowser vs Alex Lange - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Chris Bassitt
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.
- 1Vinnie Pasquantino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gunnar Henderson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.