DET @ HOU
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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
- 1-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
Brice Matthews vs Framber Valdez - 2-0.39▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike
Kevin McGonigle vs Hunter Brown - 3+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jose Altuve vs Framber Valdez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Hao-Yu Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.