SF @ TEX
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Joc Pederson vs Blade Tidwell - 2+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Justin Foscue vs Blade Tidwell - 3+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
Bryce Eldridge vs Jacob Latz
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Grant McCray — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Rafael Devers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Daniel Susac — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Justin Foscue — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Willy Adames — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.