SD @ AZ
Home plate: Ramon De Jesus
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Ketel Marte vs Michael King - 2+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball
James McCann vs Michael King - 3-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ketel Marte vs Michael King
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Jackson Merrill — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.