HOU @ NYM
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“The zone had a case of the wanders.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
A.J. Ewing vs Hunter Brown - 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Marcus Semien vs Hunter Brown - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Marcus Semien vs Hunter Brown
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Daulton Varsho — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.