COL @ PIT
Home plate: Ramon De Jesus
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus 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+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Nick Gonzales vs Jose Quintana - 2-0.39▲7 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Brett Sullivan vs Evan Sisk - 3-0.30▼2 · 3-1 ball called strike
Marcell Ozuna vs Jose Quintana
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.