KC @ NYM
Home plate: Tyler Jones
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Nick Loftin vs Christian Scott - 2-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Juan Soto vs Randy Dobnak - 3-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
A.J. Ewing vs Matt Strahm
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jorge Polanco — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Juan Soto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.