DET @ NYM
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Juan Soto vs Keider Montero - 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Carson Benge vs Keider Montero - 3+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Brett Baty vs Ricky Vanasco
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Riley Greene — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Spencer Torkelson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.