LAA @ MIA
Home plate: Jonathan Parra
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Jonathan Parra called the 161 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+0.69▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Mike Trout vs Michael Petersen - 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Leo Jiménez vs George Klassen - 3+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Vaughn Grissom vs Calvin Faucher
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Mike Trout — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Tyler Heineman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.