KC @ LAA
Home plate: Dexter Kelley
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Dexter Kelley called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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
- 1-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Steven Cruz - 2-0.20▼7 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nolan Schanuel vs John Schreiber - 3+0.19▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Grayson Rodriguez
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Denzer Guzman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Mike Trout — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.