SD @ ATL
Home plate: Emil Jimenez
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Joey Bart vs Yuki Matsui - 2+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jake Cronenworth vs Reynaldo López - 3-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
Drake Baldwin vs Walker Buehler
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.
- 1Walker Buehler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Luis Rengifo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.