NYM @ CLE
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Marcus Semien vs Joey Cantillo - 2+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Bo Bichette vs Joey Cantillo - 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Francisco Lindor vs Joey Cantillo
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 strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.