ATH @ KC
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Michael Massey vs Jack Perkins - 2+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Tommy White vs Mason Black - 3-0.23▼4 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Maikel Garcia vs Jack Perkins
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Michael Massey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.