SEA @ MIA
Home plate: Chris Segal
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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▼10 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Esteury Ruiz vs Michael Rucker - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Colt Emerson vs Pete Fairbanks - 3-0.23▲3 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Cole Young vs Max Meyer
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Colt Emerson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Esteury Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Esteury Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.