COL @ LAA
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball
Mike Trout vs Seth Halvorsen - 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Troy Johnston vs Ryan Zeferjahn - 3+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jorge Soler vs Michael Lorenzen
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Sterlin Thompson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Nick Madrigal — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.