KC @ DET
Home plate: Brian O'Nora
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Brian O'Nora called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 173 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+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Gleyber Torres vs Luinder Avila - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Colt Keith vs Luinder Avila - 3-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Gleyber Torres vs Luinder Avila
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.
- 1Colt Keith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nick Loftin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.