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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 123 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.23▲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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.