MIN @ DET
Home plate: Tyler Jones
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 178 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. 172 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+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
John Peck vs Zebby Matthews - 2+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Kevin McGonigle vs Zebby Matthews - 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Hao-Yu Lee vs Zebby Matthews
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.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Walker Jenkins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Hao-Yu Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Ben Malgeri — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 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.