TB @ BOS
Home plate: Steven Jaschinski
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Steven Jaschinski called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Willson Contreras vs Jesse Scholtens - 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Yandy Díaz vs Connelly Early - 3+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Ceddanne Rafaela vs Mason Englert
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Willson Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.