HOU @ DET
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Taylor Trammell vs Jack Flaherty - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brice Matthews vs Kyle Finnegan - 3-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Colt Keith vs Hunter Brown
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3James Outman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.