AZ @ STL
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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
- 1-0.23▼4 · 0-2 ball called strike
Nelson Velázquez vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nolan Arenado vs Max Rajcic - 3+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Iván Herrera vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Nolan Arenado — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3LuJames Groover — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4JJ Wetherholt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.