TEX @ ATH
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 139 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+0.20▲9 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jake Burger vs Scott Blewett - 2-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
Evan Carter vs J.T. Ginn - 3-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Alika Williams vs MacKenzie Gore
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brian Serven — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Brian Serven — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.