DET @ KC
Home plate: Dexter Kelley
“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”
What this shows — how Dexter Kelley called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike
Carter Jensen vs Keider Montero - 2-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Kyle Finnegan - 3-0.39▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike
Riley Greene vs Kris Bubic
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kris Bubic — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.