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Home plate: Steven Jaschinski
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Steven Jaschinski called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Davis Schneider vs Will Warren - 2-0.23▼4 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Alejandro Kirk vs Will Warren - 3-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Kazuma Okamoto vs Tim Hill
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.