SEA @ MIL
Home plate: Adrian Johnson
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 199 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 173 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
- 1-0.30▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Julio Rodríguez vs Kyle Harrison - 2+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Brock Rodden vs Shane Drohan - 3+0.21▼5 · 3-0 strike called ball
Brice Turang vs Bryce Miller
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.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.