STL @ MIA
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
José Fermín vs Janson Junk - 2+0.20▲9 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nathan Church vs Pete Fairbanks - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jakob Marsee vs Kyle Leahy
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Thomas Saggese — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Ramón Urías — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.