MIA @ ATH
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Nick Kurtz vs Sandy Alcantara - 2-0.39▲4 · 2-2 ball called strike
Jakob Marsee vs Aaron Civale - 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Kyle Stowers vs Aaron Civale
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.
- 1Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Javier Sanoja — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.