CWS @ HOU
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 119 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Randal Grichuk vs Josh Hader - 2-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Davis Martin - 3+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Miguel Vargas vs Hayden Wesneski
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Tristan Peters — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jeremy Peña — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Randal Grichuk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.