HOU @ TEX
Home plate: Ramon De Jesus
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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
- 1-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Isaac Paredes vs Gavin Collyer - 2+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Joc Pederson vs Peter Lambert - 3+0.13▲5 · 1-0 strike called ball
Jose Altuve vs Kumar Rocker
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Isaac Paredes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Nick Allen — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Justin Foscue — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.