CLE @ CWS
Home plate: Austin Jones
“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”
What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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
- 1-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Munetaka Murakami vs Franco Aleman - 2+0.09▼1 · 0-0 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Parker Messick - 3-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
Austin Hedges vs David Sandlin
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.
- 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.