HOU @ NYY
Home plate: Steven Jaschinski
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Steven Jaschinski called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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
- 1-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jose Altuve vs Elmer Rodríguez - 2+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Daulton Varsho vs Elmer Rodríguez - 3-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
Taylor Trammell vs Elmer Rodríguez
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Spencer Jones — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.