SD @ TB
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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
- 1-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Yandy Díaz vs David Morgan - 2-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jake Cronenworth vs Shane McClanahan - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Chandler Simpson vs Casey Mize
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jorge Mateo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jonny DeLuca — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.