LAD @ SD
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Roki Sasaki - 2+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Roki Sasaki - 3+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball
Andy Pages vs Walker Buehler
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.
- 1Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Miguel Rojas — 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.