TOR @ HOU
Home plate: Emil Jimenez
“This one went to video review more than most.”
What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 124 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
- 1-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
Daulton Varsho vs Shane Bieber - 2+0.09▼2 · 0-0 strike called ball
Taylor Trammell vs Shane Bieber - 3+0.09▲6 · 0-0 strike called ball
Alejandro Kirk vs Cristian Javier
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jesús Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 7Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.