STL @ COL
Home plate: Emil Jimenez
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 151 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. 140 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▲7 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Joshua Báez vs Juan Mejia - 2+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Vimael Machín vs Cooper Hjerpe - 3-0.20▼4 · 2-1 ball called strike
Brett Sullivan vs Cooper Hjerpe
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Vimael Machín — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Joshua Báez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Blas Castaño — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.