ATH @ TEX
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Corey Seager vs Gage Jump - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Lawrence Butler vs Robby Ahlstrom - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Nicky Lopez vs José Suarez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.