TB @ ATH
Home plate: Ramon De Jesus
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Ramon De Jesus called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike
Carlos Cortes vs Nick Martinez - 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Walls vs Yunior Tur - 3+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jonathan Aranda vs Mason Barnett
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.