CHC @ BAL
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“The robots earned their keep tonight.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Taylor Ward vs Colin Rea - 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Carson Kelly vs Dean Kremer - 3-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Seiya Suzuki vs Rico Garcia
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Seiya Suzuki — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.