HOU @ LAA
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 152 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
- 1-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jose Altuve vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jeremy Peña vs Brent Suter - 3-0.10▼2 · 0-1 ball called strike
Josh Lowe vs Hayden Wesneski
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.
- 1Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.