ATH @ HOU
Home plate: Jonathan Parra
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Jonathan Parra called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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
- 1-0.28▼1 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Daulton Varsho vs J.T. Ginn - 2+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Donovan Walton vs Hayden Wesneski - 3+0.19▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Jonah Heim vs Hayden Wesneski
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.