HOU @ BAL
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
Pete Alonso vs Ryan Weiss - 2-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Taylor Ward vs Ryan Weiss - 3-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Isaac Paredes vs Ryan Helsley
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.