SEA @ TEX
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Joc Pederson vs George Kirby - 2-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
Brandon Nimmo vs George Kirby - 3+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball
Evan Carter vs George Kirby
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.