TOR @ LAA
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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 ✓
Nolan Schanuel vs Eric Lauer - 2+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
Logan O'Hoppe vs Joe Mantiply - 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Daulton Varsho vs José Soriano
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 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.
- 2Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.