PIT @ TEX
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Marcell Ozuna vs Jacob deGrom - 2+0.21▼3 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Evan Carter vs Bubba Chandler - 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Alejandro Osuna vs Bubba Chandler
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Evan Carter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Konnor Griffin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.