TB @ ATH
Home plate: Ramon De Jesus
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
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 135 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+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jonathan Aranda vs Mason Barnett - 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Taylor Walls vs Yunior Tur
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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Junior Caminero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Junior Caminero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.