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Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Luke Keaschall vs Casey Mize - 2-0.09▼2 · 0-0 ball called strike
Gavin Sheets vs Dean Kremer
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Josh Bell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Byron Buxton — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.