SD @ SEA
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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▼3 · 3-2 ball called strike
Mitch Garver vs Lucas Giolito - 2+0.69▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Xander Bogaerts vs George Kirby - 3+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Manny Machado vs George Kirby
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.
- 1Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Dominic Canzone — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Leo Rivas — 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.