HOU @ LAA
Home plate: Chris Guccione
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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▼3 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nolan Schanuel vs AJ Blubaugh - 2+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Sam Bachman - 3+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jose Altuve vs Ryan Zeferjahn
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.