BOS @ SEA
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 109 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 100 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+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Julio Rodríguez vs Payton Tolle - 2+0.13▼7 · 1-0 strike called ball
Cole Young vs Danny Coulombe - 3-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Josh Naylor vs Ryan Watson
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Robles — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Rob Refsnyder — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.