BAL @ TEX
Home plate: James Jean
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how James Jean called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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▼9 · 3-2 strike called ball
Cam Cauley vs Albert Suárez - 2+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jake Burger vs Yaramil Hiraldo - 3-0.30▲6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Pete Alonso vs Jordan Montgomery
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.