LAA @ TEX
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Elias Díaz vs Ryan Zeferjahn - 2-0.39▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike
Josh Smith vs José Fermin - 3+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Mike Trout vs MacKenzie Gore
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.
- 1Alejandro Osuna — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Justin Foscue — 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.