BAL @ BOS
Home plate: Felix Neon
“You could set a watch by that zone.”
What this shows — how Felix Neon called the 102 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 100 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+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jackson Holliday vs Aroldis Chapman - 2-0.09▲1 · 0-0 ball called strike
Tyler O'Neill vs Jake Bennett
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Masataka Yoshida — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Masataka Yoshida — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Colton Cowser — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Taylor Ward — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.