LAA @ BAL
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike
Christian Encarnacion-Strand vs Mitch Farris - 2+0.21▼1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Dylan Beavers vs Ryan Johnson - 3+0.19▼2 · 2-0 strike called ball
Leody Taveras vs Ryan Johnson
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yohel Pozo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Coby Mayo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.