TEX @ KC
Home plate: James Jean
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how James Jean called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Corey Seager vs Stephen Kolek - 2+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Corey Seager vs Stephen Kolek - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. 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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.