ATH @ KC
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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
- 1-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Jack Perkins - 2+0.13▲6 · 1-0 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Mason Black - 3+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Kyle Isbel vs Brady Basso
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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Michael Massey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.