AZ @ HOU
Home plate: Chris Segal
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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
- 1-0.23▲5 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ryan Waldschmidt vs Cristian Javier - 2+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Nolan Arenado vs Cristian Javier - 3-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
Cam Smith vs Justin Martinez
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.
- 1Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Justin Martinez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.