SEA @ HOU
Home plate: Austin Jones
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Josh Naylor vs Bryan King - 2-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Victor Robles vs Hayden Wesneski - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Taylor Trammell vs Emerson Hancock
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.