TB @ ATH
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Walls vs Jack Perkins - 2-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Victor Mesa Jr. vs Seth Johnson - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs Steven Matz
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Brian Serven — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.