WSH @ ATL
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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
- 1-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
James Wood vs Raisel Iglesias - 2-0.23▼8 · 0-2 ball called strike
Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Riley Cornelio - 3+0.20▲8 · 2-1 strike called ball
Daylen Lile vs Dylan Lee
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1James Wood — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dylan Crews — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Drake Baldwin — 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.