HOU @ CWS
Home plate: Dexter Kelley
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Dexter Kelley called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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
- 1-0.28▲7 · 1-2 ball called strike
Lucas Spence vs Trevor Richards - 2-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike
Christian Vázquez vs Davis Martin - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Davis Martin
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Isaac Paredes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Drew Romo — 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.