LAA @ TEX
Home plate: Chad Whitson
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What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nolan Schanuel vs Jacob deGrom - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jorge Soler vs Jacob deGrom - 3+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Cam Cauley vs Sam Bachman
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.
- 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Logan O'Hoppe — 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.