TOR @ TB
Home plate: James Jean
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how James Jean called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike
Chandler Simpson vs Brendon Little - 2+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
Alejandro Kirk vs Bryan Baker - 3+0.10▼2 · 0-1 strike called ball
Taylor Walls vs Max Scherzer
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.
- 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Myles Straw — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — 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.