TB @ LAD
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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
- 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Taylor Walls vs Tanner Scott - 2+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Austin Slater vs Eric Lauer - 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Nick Fortes vs Eric Lauer
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Taylor Walls — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.