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. 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
- 1-0.39▲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), not our error.