CLE @ COL
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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+0.21▼2 · 3-0 strike called ball
Ezequiel Tovar vs Foster Griffin - 2+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
Chase DeLauter vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Austin Hedges vs Tomoyuki Sugano
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.
- 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.