HOU @ TEX
Home plate: Ramon De Jesus
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nicky Lopez vs Spencer Arrighetti - 2-0.20▼4 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jake Burger vs Spencer Arrighetti - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Yordan Alvarez vs Nathan Eovaldi
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.
- 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.