WSH @ TEX
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 136 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+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
Nasim Nuñez vs Jacob deGrom - 2-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Evan Carter vs Andrew Alvarez - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Evan Carter vs Andrew Alvarez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4José Tena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.