CLE @ MIA
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Otto Lopez vs Joey Cantillo - 2-0.20▼9 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Otto Lopez vs Cade Smith - 3-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike
Gabriel Arias vs Lake Bachar
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Steven Kwan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.