SF @ MIA
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jung Hoo Lee vs Lake Bachar - 2-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
Willy Adames vs Tyler Zuber - 3+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Drew Gilbert vs Pete Fairbanks
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.
- 1Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jung Hoo Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.