WSH @ ATH
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 160 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. 149 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▲1 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Andrés Chaparro vs Jacob Lopez - 2+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Wood vs Jacob Lopez - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Tyler Soderstrom vs Foster Griffin
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.
- 1Andrés Chaparro — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3CJ Abrams — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.