HOU @ KC
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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
- 1-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Brice Matthews vs Stephen Kolek - 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Maikel Garcia vs Spencer Arrighetti - 3-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
Michael Massey vs Spencer Arrighetti
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.