DET @ CLE
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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▼9 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nathaniel Lowe vs Kenley Jansen - 2-0.19▼1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Steven Kwan vs Jackson Jobe - 3+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Angel Martínez vs Jackson Jobe
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.