ATL @ CWS
Home plate: Chad Whitson
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What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jacob Gonzalez vs Chris Sale - 2+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Matt Olson vs Sean Newcomb - 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Edgar Quero vs James Karinchak
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.