ATL @ WSH
Home plate: Chris Segal
“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”
What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 137 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+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Wood vs JR Ritchie - 2+0.69▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Wood vs Dylan Lee - 3+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drake Baldwin vs Cade Cavalli
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.
- 1Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.