TEX @ LAA
Home plate: Austin Jones
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 109 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▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Cam Cauley vs Samy Natera Jr. - 2-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Wade Meckler vs Cody Bradford - 3-0.09▲1 · 0-0 ball called strike
Corey Seager vs Ryan Johnson
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Evan Carter — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.