HOU @ MIN
Home plate: Doug Eddings
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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
Jake Meyers vs Zebby Matthews - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Isaac Paredes vs Zebby Matthews - 3+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Christian Vázquez vs Zebby Matthews
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.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.