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Home plate: James Jean
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
What this shows — how James Jean called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 142 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Zebby Matthews - 2-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Ryan Jeffers vs Shota Imanaga - 3-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Carson Kelly vs Kody Funderburk
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 7Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.