TOR @ SEA
Home plate: Dexter Kelley
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Dexter Kelley called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cal Raleigh vs Trey Yesavage - 2+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Yohendrick Piñango vs Emerson Hancock - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Cal Raleigh vs Mason Fluharty
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.