CHC @ NYM
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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+0.20▼9 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
A.J. Ewing vs Jacob Webb - 2+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Carson Benge vs Matthew Boyd - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Alex Bregman vs Freddy Peralta
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5A.J. Ewing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.