“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how Jen Pawol called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Miguel Vargas vs Alex Lange - 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Seth Lugo - 3+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Andrew Benintendi vs Seth Lugo
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Chase Meidroth — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.