DET @ TB
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 109 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+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Cedric Mullins vs Troy Melton - 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Kerry Carpenter vs Mason Englert - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Jonathan Aranda vs Troy Melton
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jake Rogers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.