NYM @ CLE
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Chase DeLauter vs Sean Manaea - 2-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Marcus Semien vs Joey Cantillo - 3+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Rhys Hoskins vs Sean Manaea
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.
- 1Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.