HOU @ TB
Home plate: Mark Wegner
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 127 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. 115 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Liam Hicks vs Peter Lambert - 2+0.19▲9 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Trammell vs Bryan Baker - 3-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Isaac Paredes vs Ty Johnson
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.