TOR @ ATH
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Dylan Cease - 2+0.21▼3 · 3-0 strike called ball
Henry Bolte vs Dylan Cease - 3-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Myles Straw vs Jacob Lopez
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.
- 1Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Myles Straw — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.