KC @ TB
Home plate: Emil Jimenez
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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
- 1-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Victor Mesa Jr. vs Seth Lugo - 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Carter Jensen vs Casey Legumina - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Isaac Collins vs Ian Seymour
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.