TEX @ CLE
Home plate: Chris Segal
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
- 1-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Rhys Hoskins vs Winston Santos - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Ezequiel Duran vs Joey Cantillo - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Kyle Higashioka vs Joey Cantillo
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Gabriel Arias — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.