MIN @ TEX
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 108 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 104 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+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball· challenged
Elias Díaz vs Mike Paredes - 2+0.09▲5 · 0-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Luke Keaschall vs MacKenzie Gore - 3+0.09▲5 · 0-0 strike called ball
Ryan Kreidler vs MacKenzie Gore
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Josh Bell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.