ATH @ HOU
Home plate: Tripp Gibson
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged
Darell Hernaiz vs Tatsuya Imai - 2+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Carlos Cortes vs Tatsuya Imai - 3-0.21▲9 · 3-0 ball called strike
Jeff McNeil vs Alimber Santa
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.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Darell Hernaiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jeff McNeil — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.