HOU @ TEX
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Taylor Trammell vs Tyler Alexander - 2+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Isaac Paredes vs Peyton Gray - 3-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Robby Ahlstrom
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Josh Jung — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.