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Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Josh Bell vs Robert Gasser - 2-0.10▲2 · 0-1 ball called strike
Luke Keaschall vs Robert Gasser - 3+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jake Bauers vs Taj Bradley
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.