ATH @ MIN
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Josh Bell vs Jacob Lopez - 2-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Ryan Jeffers vs Jacob Lopez - 3-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Henry Bolte vs Zebby Matthews
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jeff McNeil — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.