AZ @ HOU
Home plate: Edwin Jimenez
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
What this shows — how Edwin Jimenez called the 128 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. 116 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Christian Walker vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 2+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cam Smith vs Juan Morillo - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Isaac Paredes vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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.
- 1James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ildemaro Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 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.