SEA @ HOU
Home plate: Tripp Gibson
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Tripp Gibson called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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
- 1-0.39▲4 · 2-2 ball called strike
Brendan Donovan vs Hunter Brown - 2+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Eduard Bazardo - 3-0.21▼9 · 3-0 ball called strike
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Andrés Muñoz
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.
- 1Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.