SEA @ BOS
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Dominic Canzone vs Patrick Sandoval - 2+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Weston Wilson vs Brayan Bello - 3+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Dominic Canzone vs Patrick Sandoval
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Sandoval — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.