MIL @ WSH
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
CJ Abrams vs Kyle Harrison - 2+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
James Wood vs Kyle Harrison - 3-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
CJ Abrams vs Kyle Harrison
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.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jacob Young — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4CJ Abrams — 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.