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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 134 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+0.30▼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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.