CIN @ SEA
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Dominic Canzone vs Sam Moll - 2+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Julio Rodríguez vs Tejay Antone - 3+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Weston Wilson vs Julian Garcia
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.