KC @ TEX
Home plate: Carlos Torres
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What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 154 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
- 1-0.39▲7 · 2-2 ball called strike
Lane Thomas vs Tyler Alexander - 2-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Brandon Nimmo vs Daniel Lynch IV - 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Carter Jensen vs Chris Martin
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ezequiel Duran — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.