AZ @ LAD
Home plate: Austin Jones
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Teoscar Hernández vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Tim Tawa vs Brock Stewart - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Mookie Betts vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.