TEX @ ATL
Home plate: Brennan Miller
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 131 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. 123 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+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Kyle Higashioka vs Grant Holmes - 2-0.10▲8 · 0-1 ball called strike
Ezequiel Duran vs Dylan Lee - 3-0.10▲8 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Justin Foscue vs Dylan Lee
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Justin Foscue — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.