SF @ ATL
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 166 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Drew Gilbert vs Grant Holmes - 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Drew Gilbert vs Anthony Molina - 3-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ozzie Albies vs Robbie Ray
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.